Title
Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with the August 2006 Timing Glitch of the Vela Pulsar
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 x 10-21 to 1.4 x 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 x 1044 to 1.3 x 1045 erg.
Recommended Citation
J. Abadie et al., "Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with the August 2006 Timing Glitch of the Vela Pulsar," Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 83, no. 4, American Physical Society (APS), Feb 2011.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.042001
Department(s)
Physics
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
1550-7998
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2011 American Physical Society (APS), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Feb 2011
