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Results from an Einstein@Home search for continuous gravitational waves from Cassiopeia A, Vela Jr. and G347.3

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-08-07 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We report results of the most sensitive search to date for periodic gravitational waves from Cassiopeia A, Vela Jr. and G347.3 with frequency between 20 and 1500 Hz. The search was made possible by the computing power provided by the volunteers of the Einstein@Home project and improves on previous results by a factor of 2 across the entire frequency range for all targets. We find no significant signal candidate and set the most stringent upper limits to date on the amplitude of gravitational wave signals from the target population, corresponding to sensitivity depths between 54 [1/Hz][1/ {\sqrt{\textrm{Hz}}}] and 83 [1/Hz][1/ {\sqrt{\textrm{Hz}}}], depending on the target and the frequency range. At the frequency of best strain sensitivity, near 172172 Hz, we set 90% confidence upper limits on the gravitational wave intrinsic amplitude of h090%1025h_0^{90\%}\approx 10^{-25}, probing ellipticity values for Vela Jr. as low as 3×1083\times 10^{-8}, assuming a distance of 200 pc.

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@article{arxiv.1903.09119,
  title  = {Results from an Einstein@Home search for continuous gravitational waves from Cassiopeia A, Vela Jr. and G347.3},
  author = {Jing Ming and Maria Alessandra Papa and Avneet Singh and Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein and Sylvia J. Zhu and Vladimir Dergachev and Yi-Ming Hu and Reinhard Prix and Bernd Machenschalk and Christian Beer and Oliver Behnke and Bruce Allen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.09119},
  year   = {2019}
}