SEARCH FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVE BURSTS FROM SIX MAGNETARS

被引:56
作者
Abadie, J. [1 ]
Abbott, B. P. [1 ]
Abbott, R. [1 ]
Abernathy, M. [2 ]
Accadia, T. [3 ]
Acernese, F. [4 ,5 ]
Adams, C. [6 ]
Adhikari, R. [1 ]
Affeldt, C. [7 ,8 ]
Allen, B. [7 ,8 ,9 ]
Allen, G. S. [10 ]
Ceron, E. Amador [9 ]
Amariutei, D. [11 ]
Amin, R. S. [12 ]
Anderson, S. B. [1 ]
Anderson, W. G. [9 ]
Antonucci, F. [13 ]
Arai, K. [1 ]
Arain, M. A. [11 ]
Araya, M. C. [1 ]
Aston, S. M. [14 ]
Astone, P. [13 ]
Atkinson, D. [15 ]
Aufmuth, P. [7 ,8 ]
Aulbert, C. [7 ,8 ]
Aylott, B. E. [14 ]
Babak, S. [16 ]
Baker, P. [17 ]
Ballardin, G. [18 ]
Ballmer, S. [1 ]
Barker, D. [15 ]
Barnum, S. [19 ]
Barone, F. [4 ,5 ]
Barr, B. [2 ]
Barriga, P. [20 ]
Barsotti, L. [21 ]
Barsuglia, M. [22 ]
Barton, M. A. [15 ]
Bartos, I. [23 ]
Bassiri, R. [2 ]
Bastarrika, M. [2 ]
Basti, A. [2 ,24 ,25 ]
Bauchrowitz, J. [7 ,8 ]
Bauer, Th S. [26 ]
Behnke, B. [16 ]
Beker, M. G. [26 ]
Bell, A. S. [2 ]
Belletoile, A. [2 ,3 ]
Belopolski, I. [23 ]
Benacquista, M. [27 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[3] Univ Savoie, LAPP, CNRS, IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[4] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80126 Naples, Italy
[5] Univ Salerno, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
[6] LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[7] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[8] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[9] Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[10] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[11] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[12] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[13] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[14] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[15] LIGO Hanford Observ, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[16] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany
[17] Montana State Univ, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
[18] EGO, I-56021 Cascina, PI, Italy
[19] Carleton Coll, Northfield, MN 55057 USA
[20] Univ Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
[21] MIT, LIGO, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[22] Univ Paris Diderot, Lab Astroparticule & Cosmol APC, CNRS, IN2P3,CEA,DSM,IRFU,Observ Paris, F-75013 Paris, France
[23] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[24] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[25] Univ Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[26] Nikhef, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[27] Univ Texas Brownsville & Texas Southmost Coll, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[28] San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192 USA
[29] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow 119992, Russia
[30] Univ Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Observ Cote Azur, F-06304 Nice, France
[31] Univ Paris 11, LAL, CNRS, IN2P3, F-91898 Orsay, France
[32] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[33] Univ Rennes 1, CNRS, Inst Phys Rennes, F-35042 Rennes, France
[34] CNRS, IN2P3, LMA, F-69622 Lyon, France
[35] Washington State Univ, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
[36] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[37] Caltech CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[38] Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[39] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[40] Rutherford Appleton Lab, HSIC, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[41] Warsaw Univ, Astron Observ, PL-00478 Warsaw, Poland
[42] CAMK PAN, PL-00716 Warsaw, Poland
[43] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
[44] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[45] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[46] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
[47] Univ Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA
[48] Univ Naples Federico II, I-80126 Naples, Italy
[49] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[50] Univ Urbino Carlo Bo, I-61029 Urbino, Italy
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会; 英国科学技术设施理事会; 美国国家航空航天局;
关键词
gravitational waves; stars: magnetars; SOFT-GAMMA-REPEATER; X-RAY PULSAR; MAGNETIZED NEUTRON-STARS; GIANT FLARE; SGR 1900+14; DISCOVERY; OSCILLATIONS; DISTANCE; LOCALIZATION; ORIGIN;
D O I
10.1088/2041-8205/734/2/L35
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Soft gamma repeaters (SGRs) and anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) are thought to be magnetars: neutron stars powered by extreme magnetic fields. These rare objects are characterized by repeated and sometimes spectacular gamma-ray bursts. The burst mechanism might involve crustal fractures and excitation of non-radial modes which would emit gravitational waves (GWs). We present the results of a search for GW bursts from six galactic magnetars that is sensitive to neutron star f-modes, thought to be the most efficient GW emitting oscillatory modes in compact stars. One of them, SGR 0501+4516, is likely similar to 1 kpc from Earth, an order of magnitude closer than magnetars targeted in previous GW searches. A second, AXP 1E 1547.0-5408, gave a burst with an estimated isotropic energy >10(44) erg which is comparable to the giant flares. We find no evidence of GWs associated with a sample of 1279 electromagnetic triggers from six magnetars occurring between 2006 November and 2009 June, in GW data from the LIGO, Virgo, and GEO600 detectors. Our lowest model-dependent GW emission energy upper limits for band-and time-limited white noise bursts in the detector sensitive band, and for f-mode ringdowns (at 1090 Hz), are 3.0 x 10(44)d(1)(2) erg and 1.4 x 10(47)d(1)(2) erg, respectively, where d(1) = d(0501)/1 kpc and d(0501) is the distance to SGR 0501+4516. These limits on GW emission from f-modes are an order of magnitude lower than any previous, and approach the range of electromagnetic energies seen in SGR giant flares for the first time.
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