First all-sky upper limits from LIGO on the strength of periodic gravitational waves using the Hough transform

Abbott, B. and Cantley, C.A., LIGO Scientific Collaboration (2005) First all-sky upper limits from LIGO on the strength of periodic gravitational waves using the Hough transform. Physical Review D, 72 (10). 102004. ISSN 1550-2368 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.102004)

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Abstract

We perform a wide parameter-space search for continuous gravitational waves over the whole sky and over a large range of values of the frequency and the first spin-down parameter. Our search method is based on the Hough transform, which is a semicoherent, computationally efficient, and robust pattern recognition technique. We apply this technique to data from the second science run of the LIGO detectors and our final results are all-sky upper limits on the strength of gravitational waves emitted by unknown isolated spinning neutron stars on a set of narrow frequency bands in the range 200–400   Hz. The best upper limit on the gravitational-wave strain amplitude that we obtain in this frequency range is 4.43×10−23.

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