Search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar
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2011
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Hosken, D.
Munch, J.
Ottaway, D.
Veitch, P.
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Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2011; 83(4):042001-1-042001-13
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J. Abadie... D. J. Hosken... J. Munch... D. J. Ottaway... P. J. Veitch...et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration)
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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 6.3×10⁻²¹ to 1.4×10⁻²⁰ 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 5.0×10⁴⁴ to 1.3×10⁴⁵ erg.
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©2011 American Physical Society