Title:	Implementation of an F-statistic all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Virgo VSR1 data
Authors:	Aasi, J. Abbott, B.P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. Iyer, B.R. LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration +250 Co authors
Issue Date:	21-Aug-2014
Publisher:	IOP Publishing Ltd.
Citation:	Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2014, Vol.31, p165014
Abstract:	We present an implementation of the $\mathcal{F}$-statistic to carry out the first search in data from the Virgo laser interferometric gravitational wave detector for periodic gravitational waves from a priori unknown, isolated rotating neutron stars. We searched a frequency f0 range from 100 Hz to 1 kHz and the frequency dependent spindown f1 range from $-1.6({{f}_{0}}/100\;{\rm Hz})\times {{10}^{-9}}$ Hz s−1 to zero. A large part of this frequency–spindown space was unexplored by any of the all-sky searches published so far. Our method consisted of a coherent search over two-day periods using the Script F-statistic, followed by a search for coincidences among the candidates from the two-day segments. We have introduced a number of novel techniques and algorithms that allow the use of the fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm in the coherent part of the search resulting in a fifty-fold speed-up in computation of the $\mathcal{F}$-statistic with respect to the algorithm used in the other pipelines. No significant gravitational wave signal was found. The sensitivity of the search was estimated by injecting signals into the data. In the most sensitive parts of the detector band more than 90% of signals would have been detected with dimensionless gravitational-wave amplitude greater than $5\times {{10}^{-24}}$
Description:	Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/6022
ISSN:	0264-9381 1361-6382 (online)
Alternative Location:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4974 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/31/16/165014 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014CQGra..31p5014A
Copyright:	2014 IOP Publishing Ltd.
Appears in Collections:	Research Papers (TP)

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