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B. Abbott,¹⁵ R. Abbott,¹⁵ R. Adhikari,¹⁵ J. Agresti,¹⁵ P. Ajith,² B. Allen,^2,52 R. Amin,¹⁹ S. B. Anderson,¹⁵ W. G. Anderson,⁵² M. Arain,⁴⁰ M. Araya,¹⁵ H. Armandula,¹⁵ M. Ashley,⁴ S. Aston,³⁹ P. Aufmuth,³⁷ C. Aulbert,¹ S. Babak,¹ S. Ballmer,¹⁵ H. Bantilan,⁹ B. C. Barish,¹⁵ C. Barker,¹⁶ D. Barker,¹⁶ B. Barr,⁴¹ P. Barriga,⁵¹ M. A. Barton,⁴¹ K. Bayer,¹⁸ K. Belczynski,²⁵ J. Betzwieser,¹⁸ P. T. Beyersdorf,²⁸ B. Bhawal,¹⁵ I. A. Bilenko,²² G. Billingsley,¹⁵ R. Biswas,⁵² E. Black,¹⁵ K. Blackburn,¹⁵ L. Blackburn,¹⁸ D. Blair,⁵¹ B. Bland,¹⁶ J. Bogenstahl,⁴¹ L. Bogue,¹⁷ R. Bork,¹⁵ V. Boschi,¹⁵ S. Bose,⁵⁴ P. R. Brady,⁵² V. B. Braginsky,²² J. E. Brau,⁴⁴ M. Brinkmann,² A. Brooks,³⁸ D. A. Brown,^7,15 A. Bullington,³¹ A. Bunkowski,² A. Buonanno,⁴² O. Burmeister,² D. Busby,¹⁵ W. E. Butler,⁴⁵ R. L. Byer,³¹ L. Cadonati,¹⁸ G. Cagnoli,⁴¹ J. B. Camp,²³ J. Cannizzo,²³ K. Cannon,⁵² C. A. Cantley,⁴¹ J. Cao,¹⁸ L. Cardenas,¹⁵ K. Carter,¹⁷ M. M. Casey,⁴¹ G. Castaldi,⁴⁷ C. Cepeda,¹⁵ E. Chalkey,⁴¹ P. Charlton,¹⁰ S. Chatterji,¹⁵ S. Chelkowski,² Y. Chen,¹ F. Chiadini,⁴⁶ D. Chin,⁴³ E. Chin,⁵¹ J. Chow,⁴ N. Christensen,⁹ J. Clark,⁴¹ P. Cochrane,² T. Cokelaer,⁸ C. N. Colacino,³⁹ R. Coldwell,⁴⁰ R. Conte,⁴⁶ D. Cook,¹⁶ T. Corbitt,¹⁸ D. Coward,⁵¹ D. Coyne,¹⁵ J. D. E. Creighton,⁵² T. D. Creighton,¹⁵ R. P. Croce,⁴⁷ D. R. M. Crooks,⁴¹ A. M. Cruise,³⁹ A. Cumming,⁴¹ J. Dalrymple,³² E. D'Ambrosio,¹⁵ K. Danzmann,^2,37 G. Davies,⁸ D. DeBra,³¹ J. Degallaix,⁵¹ M. Degree,³¹ T. Demma,⁴⁷ V. Dergachev,⁴³ S. Desai,³³ R. DeSalvo,¹⁵ S. Dhurandhar,¹⁴ M. Díaz,³⁴ J. Dickson,⁴ A. Di Credico,³² G. Diederichs,³⁷ A. Dietz,⁸ E. E. Doomes,³⁰ R. W. P. Drever,⁵ J.-C. Dumas,⁵¹ R. J. Dupuis,¹⁵ J. G. Dwyer,¹¹ P. Ehrens,¹⁵ E. Espinoza,¹⁵ T. Etzel,¹⁵ M. Evans,¹⁵ T. Evans,¹⁷ S. Fairhurst,^8,15 Y. Fan,⁵¹ D. Fazi,¹⁵ M. M. Fejer,³¹ L. S. Finn,³³ V. Fiumara,⁴⁶ N. Fotopoulos,⁵² A. Franzen,³⁷ K. Y. Franzen,⁴⁰ A. Freise,³⁹ R. Frey,⁴⁴ T. Fricke,⁴⁵ P. Fritschel,¹⁸ V. V. Frolov,¹⁷ M. Fyffe,¹⁷ V. Galdi,⁴⁷ K. S. Ganezer,⁶ J. Garofoli,¹⁶ I. Gholami,¹ J. A. Giaime,^17,19 S. Giampanis,⁴⁵ K. D. Giardina,¹⁷ K. Goda,¹⁸ E. Goetz,⁴³ L. Goggin,¹⁵ G. González,¹⁹ S. Gossler,⁴ A. Grant,⁴¹ S. Gras,⁵¹ C. Gray,¹⁶ M. Gray,⁴ J. Greenhalgh,²⁷ A. M. Gretarsson,¹² R. Grosso,³⁴ H. Grote,² S. Grunewald,¹ M. Guenther,¹⁶ R. Gustafson,⁴³ B. Hage,³⁷ D. Hammer,⁵² C. Hanna,¹⁹ J. Hanson,¹⁷ J. Harms,² G. Harry,¹⁸ E. Harstad,⁴⁴ T. Hayler,²⁷ J. Heefner,¹⁵ I. S. Heng,⁴¹ A. Heptonstall,⁴¹ M. Heurs,² M. Hewitson,² S. Hild,³⁷ E. Hirose,³² D. Hoak,¹⁷ D. Hosken,³⁸ J. Hough,⁴¹ E. Howell,⁵¹ D. Hoyland,³⁹ S. H. Huttner,⁴¹ D. Ingram,¹⁶ E. Innerhofer,¹⁸ M. Ito,⁴⁴ Y. Itoh,⁵² A. Ivanov,¹⁵ D. Jackrel,³¹ B. Johnson,¹⁶ W. W. Johnson,¹⁹ D. I. Jones,⁴⁸ G. Jones,⁸ R. Jones,⁴¹ L. Ju,⁵¹ P. Kalmus,¹¹ V. Kalogera,²⁵ D. Kasprzyk,³⁹ E. Katsavounidis,¹⁸ K. Kawabe,¹⁶ S. Kawamura,²⁴ F. Kawazoe,²⁴ W. Kells,¹⁵ D. G. Keppel,¹⁵ F. Ya. Khalili,²² C. Kim,²⁵ P. King,¹⁵ J. S. Kissel,¹⁹ S. Klimenko,⁴⁰ K. Kokeyama,²⁴ V. Kondrashov,¹⁵ R. K. Kopparapu,¹⁹ D. Kozak,¹⁵ B. Krishnan,¹ P. Kwee,³⁷ P. K. Lam,⁴ M. Landry,¹⁶ B. Lantz,³¹ A. Lazzarini,¹⁵ B. Lee,⁵¹ M. Lei,¹⁵ J. Leiner,⁵⁴ V. Leonhardt,²⁴ I. Leonor,⁴⁴ K. Libbrecht,¹⁵ P. Lindquist,¹⁵ N. A. Lockerbie,⁴⁹ M. Longo,⁴⁶ M. Lormand,¹⁷ M. Lubinski,¹⁶ H. Lück,^2,37 B. Machenschalk,¹ M. MacInnis,¹⁸ M. Mageswaran,¹⁵ K. Mailand,¹⁵ M. Malec,³⁷ V. Mandic,¹⁵ S. Marano,⁴⁶ S. Márka,¹¹ J. Markowitz,¹⁸ E. Maros,¹⁵ I. Martin,⁴¹ J. N. Marx,¹⁵ K. Mason,¹⁸ L. Matone,¹¹ V. Matta,⁴⁶ N. Mavalvala,¹⁸ R. McCarthy,¹⁶ D. E. McClelland,⁴ S. C. McGuire,³⁰ M. McHugh,²¹ K. McKenzie,⁴ J. W. C. McNabb,³³ S. McWilliams,²³ T. Meier,³⁷ A. Melissinos,⁴⁵ G. Mendell,¹⁶ R. A. Mercer,⁴⁰ S. Meshkov,¹⁵ E. Messaritaki,¹⁵ C. J. Messenger,⁴¹ D. Meyers,¹⁵ E. Mikhailov,¹⁸ S. Mitra,¹⁴ V. P. Mitrofanov,²² G. Mitselmakher,⁴⁰ R. Mittleman,¹⁸ O. Miyakawa,¹⁵ S. Mohanty,³⁴ G. Moreno,¹⁶ K. Mossavi,² C. MowLowry,⁴ A. Moylan,⁴ D. Mudge,³⁸ G. Mueller,⁴⁰ S. Mukherjee,³⁴ H. Müller-Ebhardt,² J. Munch,³⁸ P. Murray,⁴¹ E. Myers,¹⁶ J. Myers,¹⁶ T. Nash,¹⁵ G. Newton,⁴¹ A. Nishizawa,²⁴ F. Nocera,¹⁵ K. Numata,²³ B. O'Reilly,¹⁷ R. O'Shaughnessy,²⁵ D. J. Ottaway,¹⁸ H. Overmier,¹⁷ B. J. Owen,³³ Y. Pan,⁴² M. A. Papa,^1,52 V. Parameshwaraiah,¹⁶ C. Parameswariah,¹⁷ P. Patel,¹⁵ M. Pedraza,¹⁵ S. Penn,¹³ V. Pierro,⁴⁷ I. M. Pinto,⁴⁷ M. Pitkin,⁴¹ H. Pletsch,² M. V. Plissi,⁴¹ F. Postiglione,⁴⁶ R. Prix,¹ V. Quetschke,⁴⁰ F. Raab,¹⁶ D. Rabeling,⁴ H. Radkins,¹⁶ R. Rahkola,⁴⁴ N. Rainer,² M. Rakhmanov,³³ K. Rawlins,¹⁸ S. Ray-Majumder,⁵² V. Re,³⁹ T. Regimbau,⁸ H. Rehbein,² S. Reid,⁴¹ D. H. Reitze,⁴⁰ L. Ribichini,² R. Riesen,¹⁷ K. Riles,⁴³ B. Rivera,¹⁶ N. A. Robertson,^15,41 C. Robinson,⁸ E. L. Robinson,³⁹ S. Roddy,¹⁷ A. Rodriguez,¹⁹ A. M. Rogan,⁵⁴ J. Rollins,¹¹ J. D. Romano,⁸ J. Romie,¹⁷ R. Route,³¹ S. Rowan,⁴¹ A. Rüdiger,² L. Ruet,¹⁸ P. Russell,¹⁵ K. Ryan,¹⁶ S. Sakata,²⁴ M. Samidi,¹⁵ L. Sancho de la Jordana,³⁶ V. Sandberg,¹⁶ G. H. Sanders,¹⁵ V. Sannibale,¹⁵ S. Saraf,²⁶ P. Sarin,¹⁸ B. S. Sathyaprakash,⁸ S. Sato,²⁴ P. R. Saulson,³² R. Savage,¹⁶ P. Savov,⁷ A. Sazonov,⁴⁰ S. Schediwy,⁵¹ R. Schilling,² R. Schnabel,² R. Schofield,⁴⁴ B. F. Schutz,^1,8 P. Schwinberg,¹⁶ S. M. Scott,⁴ A. C. Searle,⁴ B. Sears,¹⁵ F. Seifert,² D. Sellers,¹⁷ A. S. Sengupta,⁸ P. Shawhan,⁴² D. H. Shoemaker,¹⁸ A. Sibley,¹⁷ J. A. Sidles,⁵⁰ X. Siemens,^7,15 D. Sigg,¹⁶ S. Sinha,³¹ A. M. Sintes,^1,36 B. J. J. Slagmolen,⁴ J. Slutsky,¹⁹ J. R. Smith,² M. R. Smith,¹⁵ K. Somiya,^1,2 K. A. Strain,⁴¹ D. M. Strom,⁴⁴ A. Stuver,³³ T. Z. Summerscales,³ K.-X. Sun,³¹ M. Sung,¹⁹ P. J. Sutton,¹⁵ H. Takahashi,¹ D. B. Tanner,⁴⁰ M. Tarallo,¹⁵ R. Taylor,¹⁵ R. Taylor,⁴¹ J. Thacker,¹⁷ K. A. Thorne,³³ K. S. Thorne,⁷ A. Thüring,³⁷ K. V. Tokmakov,⁴¹ C. Torres,³⁴ C. Torrie,⁴¹ G. Traylor,¹⁷ M. Trias,³⁶ W. Tyler,¹⁵ D. Ugolini,³⁵ C. Ungarelli,³⁹ K. Urbanek,³¹ H. Vahlbruch,³⁷ M. Vallisneri,⁷ C. Van Den Broeck,⁸ M. van Putten,¹⁸ M. Varvella,¹⁵ S. Vass,¹⁵ A. Vecchio,³⁹ J. Veitch,⁴¹ P. Veitch,³⁸ A. Villar,¹⁵ C. Vorvick,¹⁶ S. P. Vyachanin,²² S. J. Waldman,¹⁵ L. Wallace,¹⁵ H. Ward,⁴¹ R. Ward,¹⁵ K. Watts,¹⁷ D. Webber,¹⁵ A. Weidner,² M. Weinert,² A. Weinstein,¹⁵ R. Weiss,¹⁸ S. Wen,¹⁹ K. Wette,⁴ J. T. Whelan,¹ D. M. Whitbeck,³³ S. E. Whitcomb,¹⁵ B. F. Whiting,⁴⁰ S. Wiley,⁶ C. Wilkinson,¹⁶ P. A. Willems,¹⁵ L. Williams,⁴⁰ B. Willke,^2,37 I. Wilmut,²⁷ W. Winkler,² C. C. Wipf,¹⁸ S. Wise,⁴⁰ A. G. Wiseman,⁵² G. Woan,⁴¹ D. Woods,⁵² R. Wooley,¹⁷ J. Worden,¹⁶ W. Wu,⁴⁰ I. Yakushin,¹⁷ H. Yamamoto,¹⁵ Z. Yan,⁵¹ S. Yoshida,²⁹ N. Yunes,³³ M. Zanolin,¹⁸ J. Zhang,⁴³ L. Zhang,¹⁵ C. Zhao,⁵¹ N. Zotov,²⁰ M. Zucker,¹⁸ H. zur Mühlen,³⁷ and J. Zweizig¹⁵

(LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

¹Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Golm, Germany
²Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
³Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104 USA
⁴Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia
⁵California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
⁶California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, California 90747, USA
⁷Caltech-CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
⁸Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF2 3YB, United Kingdom
⁹Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA
¹⁰Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
¹¹Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
¹²Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301 USA
¹³Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA
¹⁴Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune–411007, India
¹⁵LIGO–California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
¹⁶LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
¹⁷LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA
¹⁸LIGO–Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
¹⁹Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
²⁰Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana 71272, USA
²¹Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA
²²Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia
²³NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
²⁴National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
²⁵Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
²⁶Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
²⁷Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom
²⁸San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192, USA
²⁹Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana 70402, USA
³⁰Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA
³¹Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
³²Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
³³The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
³⁴The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA
³⁵Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA
³⁶Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
³⁷Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
³⁸University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
³⁹University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
⁴⁰University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
⁴¹University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
⁴²University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 USA
⁴³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
⁴⁴University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
⁴⁵University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
⁴⁶University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (Salerno), Italy
⁴⁷University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy
⁴⁸University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
⁴⁹University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XQ, United Kingdom
⁵⁰University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA
⁵¹University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
⁵²University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
⁵³Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York 12604, USA
⁵⁴Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA

M. Kramer and A. G. Lyne
University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank Observatory, Macclesfield, SK11 9DL, United Kingdom

We present upper limits on the gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars based on data from the third and fourth science runs of the LIGO and GEO 600 gravitational wave detectors. The data from both runs have been combined coherently to maximize sensitivity. For the first time, pulsars within binary (or multiple) systems have been included in the search by taking into account the signal modulation due to their orbits. Our upper limits are therefore the first measured for 56 of these pulsars. For the remaining 22, our results improve on previous upper limits by up to a factor of 10. For example, our tightest upper limit on the gravitational strain is 2.6×10^-25 for PSR J1603-7202, and the equatorial ellipticity of PSR J2124–3358 is less than 10^-6. Furthermore, our strain upper limit for the Crab pulsar is only 2.2 times greater than the fiducial spin-down limit.

©2007 The American Physical Society

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Publisher's Note: Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars [Phys. Rev. D 76, 042001 (2007)]
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