Search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela Pulsar

Abadie, J et al. (2011) 'Search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela Pulsar.' Physical Review D, 83 (042001). ISSN 1550-7998

Abstract

The physical mechanisms responsible for pulsar timing glitches are thought to excite quasinormal mode oscillations in their parent neutron star that couple to gravitational-wave emission. In August 2006, a timing glitch was observed in the radio emission of PSR B0833-45, the Vela pulsar. At the time of the glitch, the two colocated Hanford gravitational-wave detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave observatory (LIGO) were operational and taking data as part of the fifth LIGO science run (S5). We present the first direct search for the gravitational-wave emission associated with oscillations of the fundamental quadrupole mode excited by a pulsar timing glitch. No gravitational-wave detection candidate was found. We place Bayesian 90% confidence upper limits of 6.3×10−21 to 1.4×10−20 on the peak intrinsic strain amplitude of gravitational-wave ring-down signals, depending on which spherical harmonic mode is excited. The corresponding range of energy upper limits is 5.0×1044 to 1.3×1045  erg.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Devanka Pathak was one of 502 authors for this article. The full list of author details as well as the text of the article is available at the 'Official URL'.
Divisions:	Research Office / Professional Services
Related URLs:	https://arxiv.org/pdf/1011.1357v3.pdf
Date Deposited:	01 Jul 2016 12:00
Last Modified:	19 Aug 2016 10:27
URI:	http://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/7879

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