2008/07/25 by K Hayama, Kazuhiro Hayama, Shantanu Desai +9
Physics and Astronomy · #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Scientific Research and Discoveries #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/25/18/184016
published as Class.Quant.Grav.25:184016,2008 · submitted to CQG
arxiv created 2008/07/25 · openalex publication_date 2008/09/02 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
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.