Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using data from Advanced LIGO's first two observing runs

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作者
Abbott, B. P. [1 ]
Abbott, R. [1 ]
Abbott, T. D. [2 ]
Abraham, S. [3 ]
Acernese, F. [4 ,5 ]
Ackley, K. [6 ]
Adams, C. [7 ]
Adhikari, R. X. [1 ]
Adya, V. B. [8 ,9 ]
Affeldt, C. [8 ,9 ]
Agathos, M. [10 ]
Agatsuma, K. [11 ]
Aggarwal, N. [12 ]
Aguiar, O. D. [13 ]
Aiello, L. [14 ,15 ]
Ain, A. [3 ]
Ajith, P. [16 ]
Allen, G. [17 ]
Allocca, A. [18 ,19 ]
Aloy, M. A. [20 ]
Altin, P. A. [21 ]
Amato, A. [22 ]
Ananyeva, A. [1 ]
Anderson, S. B. [1 ]
Anderson, W. G. [23 ]
Angelova, S., V [24 ]
Antier, S. [25 ]
Appert, S. [1 ]
Arai, K. [1 ]
Araya, M. C. [1 ]
Areeda, J. S. [26 ]
Arene, M. [27 ]
Arnaud, N. [25 ,28 ]
Ascenzi, S. [29 ,30 ]
Ashton, G. [6 ]
Aston, S. M. [7 ]
Astone, P. [31 ]
Aubin, F. [32 ]
Aufmuth, P. [9 ]
AultONeal, K. [33 ]
Austin, C. [2 ]
Avendano, V [34 ]
Avila-Alvarez, A. [26 ]
Babak, S. [27 ,35 ]
Bacon, P. [27 ]
Badaracco, F. [14 ,15 ]
Bader, M. K. M. [36 ]
Bae, S. [37 ]
Baker, P. T. [38 ]
Baldaccini, F. [39 ,40 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[3] Interuniv Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[4] Univ Salerno, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
[5] INFN, Sez Napoli, Complesso Univ Monte S Angelo, I-80126 Naples, Italy
[6] Monash Univ, Sch Phys & Astron, OzGrav, Clayton, Vic 3800, Australia
[7] LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[8] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[9] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[10] Univ Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, England
[11] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[12] MIT, LIGO, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[13] Inst Nacl Pesquisas Espaciais, BR-12227010 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, Brazil
[14] GSSI, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
[15] INFN, Lab Nazl Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi, Italy
[16] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Int Ctr Theoret Sci, Bengaluru 560089, Karnataka, India
[17] Univ Illinois, NCSA, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[18] Univ Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[19] INFN, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[20] Univ Valencia, Dept Astron & Astrofis, E-46100 Valencia, Spain
[21] Australian Natl Univ, OzGrav, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[22] CNRS, IN2P3, LMA, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[23] Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[24] Univ Strathclyde, SUPA, Glasgow G1 1XQ, Lanark, Scotland
[25] Univ Paris Sud, LAL, CNRS IN2P3, Univ Paris Saclay, F-91898 Orsay, France
[26] Calif State Univ Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831 USA
[27] Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Observ Paris, APC,AstroParticule & Cosmol,CNRS IN2P3,CEA Irfu, F-75205 Paris 13, France
[28] European Gravitat Observ, I-56021 Pisa, Italy
[29] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[30] INFN, Sez Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[31] INFN, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[32] Univ Grenoble Alpes, Univ Savoie Mt Blanc, LAPP, CNRS IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy, France
[33] Embry Riddle Aeronaut Univ, Prescott, AZ 86301 USA
[34] Montclair State Univ, Montclair, NJ 07043 USA
[35] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
[36] Nikhef, Sci Pk 105, NL-1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
[37] Korea Inst Sci & Technol Informat, Daejeon 34141, South Korea
[38] West Virginia Univ, Morgantown, WV 26506 USA
[39] Univ Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[40] INFN, Sez Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[41] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[42] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[43] Univ Glasgow, SUPA, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[44] LIGO Hanford Observ, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[45] Caltech CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[46] RMKI, Wigner RCP, Konkoly Thege Miklos Ut 29-33, H-1121 Budapest, Hungary
[47] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[48] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[49] Univ Camerino, Dipartimento Fis, I-62032 Camerino, Italy
[50] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis & Astron, I-35131 Padua, Italy
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会; 俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 瑞士国家科学基金会; 英国工程与自然科学研究理事会; 英国科学技术设施理事会; 中国国家自然科学基金; 美国国家科学基金会; 匈牙利科学研究基金会; 俄罗斯科学基金会; 新加坡国家研究基金会;
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10.1103/PhysRevD.100.062001
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P1 [天文学];
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摘要
We perform an unmodeled search for persistent, directional gravitational wave (GW) sources using data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO. We do not find evidence for any GW signals. We place limits on the broadband GW flux emitted at 25 Hz from point sources with a power law spectrum at F-alpha,F-Theta < (0.05-25) x 10(-8) erg cm(-2) s(-1) Hz(-1) and the (normalized) energy density spectrum in GWs at 25 Hz from extended sources at Omega(alpha)(Theta) < (0.19-2.89) x 10(-8) sr(-1) where alpha is the spectral index of the energy density spectrum. These represent improvements of 2.5-3x over previous limits. We also consider point sources emitting GWs at a single frequency, targeting the directions of Sco X-1, SN 1987A, and the Galactic center. The best upper limits on the strain amplitude of a potential source in these three directions range from h(0) < (3.6-4.7) x 10(-25), 1.5x better than previous limits set with the same analysis method. We also report on a marginally significant outlier at 36.06 Hz. This outlier is not consistent with a persistent gravitational-wave source as its significance diminishes when combining all of the available data.
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