Research report 2003 - Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
First upper limits for gravitational waves from rotating neutron stars - analysis of the first scientific data run from GEO600
Authors
Aulbert, Carsten
Departments
Astrophysikalische Relativitätstheorie (Prof. Dr. Bernard Schutz)
MPI für Gravitationsphysik, Golm
Summary
Between the construction start of GEO600 in 1995 and the preliminary end of construction in 2003 there have been several years of exciting development of a new instrument to explore the universe. With the data taken during the first scientific data run (S1) it is now possible to set upper limits on the strength of gravitational waves from rotating neutron stars for the first time.