Results from the first all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from small-ellipticity sources

Abstract

We present the results of an all-sky search for continuous gravitational wave signals with frequencies in the 500-1700 Hz range targeting neutron stars with ellipticity of 1e-8. The search is done on LIGO O2 data using the Falcon analysis pipeline. The results presented here double the sensitivity over any other result on the same data. The search is capable of detecting low ellipticity sources up to 170 pc. We establish strict upper limits which hold for worst-case signal parameters. We list outliers uncovered by the search, including several which we cannot associate with any known instrumental cause.

This is a combined version of the article published by PRL. It includes outlier table and hardware injection table found in supplemental materials of PRL version

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