The search for continuous gravitational waves from small-ellipticity sources at low frequencies

Abstract

We present the results of an all-sky search for continuous gravitational wave signals with frequencies in the 20-500 Hz range from neutron stars with ellipticity of 1e-8. This frequency region is particularly hard to probe because of the quadratic dependence of signal strength on frequency. The search employs the Falcon analysis pipeline on LIGO O2 public data. Compared to previous Falcon analyses the coherence length has been quadrupled, with a corresponding increase in sensitivity. This enables us to search for small ellipticity neutron stars in this low frequency region up to 44 pc away. The frequency derivative range is up to 3e-13 Hz/s easily accommodating sources with ellipticities of 1e-7 and a corresponding factor of 10 increase in reach. New outliers are found, many of which we are unable to associate with any instrumental cause.

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