Work

Searches for gravitational waves associated with pulsar glitches using a coherent network algorithm

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: Pulsar glitches are a potential source of gravitational waves for current and future interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Some pulsar glitch events were observed by radio and x-ray telescopes during the fifth LIGO science run. It is expected that glitches from these same pulsars should also be seen in the future. We carried out Monte Carlo simulations to estimate the sensitivity of possible gravitational wave signals associated with a pulsar glitch using a coherent network analysis method. We show the detection efficiency and evaluate the reconstruction accuracy of gravitational waveforms using a matched filter analysis on the estimated gravitational waveforms from the coherent analysis algorithm.

Source: Classical and Quantum Gravity

DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/25/18/184016

Authors: K Hayama, S Desai, S D Mohanty, M Rakhmanov, T Summerscales, S Yoshida

Institutions: Pennsylvania State University, Andrews University, Southeastern Louisiana University

Language: English

Topic: Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research

Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Awards: PROPOSAL TO CREATE A CENTER FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVE ASTROPHYSICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS @ BROWN, RUI: End to end modeling of Advanced LIGO Inout Optics, Support for LIGO Data Analysis Activities at the University of Texas at Brownsville., Expanding interdisciplinary research at the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy