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Application of a Hough search for continuous gravitational waves on data from the fifth LIGO science run

Aasi, J., Adams, Thomas, Edwards, Mark, Fairhurst, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8480-1961, Liu, Hao, MacDonald, Erin, MacLeod, Duncan M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1395-8694, Nuttall, Laura ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8599-8791, Ohme, Frank, Predoi, Valeriu ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9729-6578, Sathyaprakash, Bangalore Suryanarayana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3845-7586, Schutz, Bernard Frederick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9487-6983 and Sutton, Patrick J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1614-3922 2014. Application of a Hough search for continuous gravitational waves on data from the fifth LIGO science run. Classical and Quantum Gravity 31 (8) , 085014. 10.1088/0264-9381/31/8/085014

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Abstract

We report on an all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range 50–1000 Hz with the first derivative of frequency in the range −8.9 × 10−10 Hz s−1 to zero in two years of data collected during LIGO's fifth science run. Our results employ a Hough transform technique, introducing a χ2 test and analysis of coincidences between the signal levels in years 1 and 2 of observations that offers a significant improvement in the product of strain sensitivity with compute cycles per data sample compared to previously published searches. Since our search yields no surviving candidates, we present results taking the form of frequency dependent, 95% confidence upper limits on the strain amplitude h0. The most stringent upper limit from year 1 is 1.0 × 10−24 in the 158.00–158.25 Hz band. In year 2, the most stringent upper limit is 8.9 × 10−25 in the 146.50–146.75 Hz band. This improved detection pipeline, which is computationally efficient by at least two orders of magnitude better than our flagship Einstein@Home search, will be important for 'quick-look' searches in the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detector era.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Published Online
Status: Published
Schools: Physics and Astronomy
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Additional Information: For a full list of contributing authors, please see the publisher's page at http://iopscience.iop.org/0264-9381/31/8/085014/
Publisher: IOP Publishing
ISSN: 0264-9381
Funders: STFC
Date of Acceptance: 7 March 2014
Last Modified: 13 Jan 2023 03:27
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/59955

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