First all-sky upper limits from LIGO on the strength of periodic gravitational waves using the Hough transform
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Publisher: name: College Park, MD : American Physical Society
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: precessing neutron-stars
subject: detector
subject: interferometer
subject: emission
subject: geo-600
subject: search
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: 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. © 2005 The American Physical Society.