All-sky search of NAUTILUS data
gr-qc
/ Authors
P. Astone, M. Bassan, P. Bonifazi, K. M. Borkowski, R. J. Budzyński, A. Chincarini, E. Coccia, S. D'Antonio, M. Di Paolo Emilio, V. Fafone
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S. Frasca, S. Foffa, G. Giordano, P. Jaranowski, W. Kondracki, A. Królak, M. Maggiore, A. Marini, Y. Minenkov, I. Modena, G. Modestino, A. Moleti, G. V. Pallottino, C. Palomba, R. Parodi, M. Pietka, G. Pizzella, H. J. Pletsch, L. Quintieri, F. Ricci, A. Rocchi, F. Ronga, R. Sturani, R. Terenzi
/ Abstract
A search for periodic gravitational-wave signals from isolated neutron stars in the NAUTILUS detector data is presented. We have analyzed half a year of data over the frequency band $<922.2; 923.2>$ Hz, the spindown range $<-1.463\times10^{-8}; 0>$ Hz/s and over the entire sky. We have divided the data into 2 day stretches and we have analyzed each stretch coherently using matched filtering. We have imposed a low threshold for the optimal detection statistic to obtain a set of candidates that are further examined for coincidences among various data stretches. For some candidates we have also investigated the change of the signal-to-noise ratio when we increase the observation time from two to four days. Our analysis has not revealed any gravitational-wave signals. Therefore we have imposed upper limits on the dimensionless gravitational-wave amplitude over the parameter space that we have searched. Depending on frequency, our upper limit ranges from $3.4 \times 10^{-23}$ to $1.3 \times 10^{-22}$. We have attempted a statistical verification of the hypotheses leading to our conclusions. We estimate that our upper limit is accurate to within 18%.