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B. P. Abbott,¹⁷ R. Abbott,¹⁷ R. Adhikari,¹⁷ P. Ajith,² B. Allen,^2,60 G. Allen,³⁵ R. S. Amin,²¹ S. B. Anderson,¹⁷ W. G. Anderson,⁶⁰ M. A. Arain,⁴⁷ M. Araya,¹⁷ H. Armandula,¹⁷ P. Armor,⁶⁰ Y. Aso,¹⁷ S. Aston,⁴⁶ P. Aufmuth,¹⁶ C. Aulbert,² S. Babak,¹ P. Baker,²⁴ S. Ballmer,¹⁷ C. Barker,¹⁸ D. Barker,¹⁸ B. Barr,⁴⁸ P. Barriga,⁵⁹ L. Barsotti,²⁰ M. A. Barton,¹⁷ I. Bartos,¹⁰ R. Bassiri,⁴⁸ M. Bastarrika,⁴⁸ B. Behnke,¹ M. Benacquista,⁴² J. Betzwieser,¹⁷ P. T. Beyersdorf,³¹ I. A. Bilenko,²⁵ G. Billingsley,¹⁷ R. Biswas,⁶⁰ E. Black,¹⁷ J. K. Blackburn,¹⁷ L. Blackburn,²⁰ D. Blair,⁵⁹ B. Bland,¹⁸ T. P. Bodiya,²⁰ L. Bogue,¹⁹ R. Bork,¹⁷ V. Boschi,¹⁷ S. Bose,⁶¹ P. R. Brady,⁶⁰ V. B. Braginsky,²⁵ J. E. Brau,⁵³ D. O. Bridges,¹⁹ M. Brinkmann,² A. F. Brooks,¹⁷ D. A. Brown,³⁶ A. Brummit,³⁰ G. Brunet,²⁰ A. Bullington,³⁵ A. Buonanno,⁴⁹ O. Burmeister,² R. L. Byer,³⁵ L. Cadonati,⁵⁰ J. B. Camp,²⁶ J. Cannizzo,²⁶ K. C. Cannon,¹⁷ J. Cao,²⁰ L. Cardenas,¹⁷ S. Caride,⁵¹ G. Castaldi,⁵⁶ S. Caudill,²¹ M. Cavaglià,³⁹ C. Cepeda,¹⁷ T. Chalermsongsak,¹⁷ E. Chalkley,⁴⁸ P. Charlton,⁹ S. Chatterji,¹⁷ S. Chelkowski,⁴⁶ Y. Chen,^1,6 N. Christensen,⁸ C. T. Y. Chung,³⁸ D. Clark,³⁵ J. Clark,⁷ J. H. Clayton,⁶⁰ T. Cokelaer,⁷ C. N. Colacino,¹² R. Conte,⁵⁵ D. Cook,¹⁸ T. R. C. Corbitt,²⁰ N. Cornish,²⁴ D. Coward,⁵⁹ D. C. Coyne,¹⁷ J. D. E. Creighton,⁶⁰ T. D. Creighton,⁴² A. M. Cruise,⁴⁶ R. M. Culter,⁴⁶ A. Cumming,⁴⁸ L. Cunningham,⁴⁸ S. L. Danilishin,²⁵ K. Danzmann,^2,16 B. Daudert,¹⁷ G. Davies,⁷ E. J. Daw,⁴⁰ D. DeBra,³⁵ J. Degallaix,² V. Dergachev,⁵¹ S. Desai,³⁷ R. DeSalvo,¹⁷ S. Dhurandhar,¹⁵ M. Díaz,⁴² A. Dietz,⁷ F. Donovan,²⁰ K. L. Dooley,⁴⁷ E. E. Doomes,³⁴ R. W. P. Drever,⁵ J. Dueck,² I. Duke,²⁰ J.-C. Dumas,⁵⁹ J. G. Dwyer,¹⁰ C. Echols,¹⁷ M. Edgar,⁴⁸ A. Effler,¹⁸ P. Ehrens,¹⁷ G. Ely,⁸ E. Espinoza,¹⁷ T. Etzel,¹⁷ M. Evans,²⁰ T. Evans,¹⁹ S. Fairhurst,⁷ Y. Faltas,⁴⁷ Y. Fan,⁵⁹ D. Fazi,¹⁷ H. Fehrmann,² L. S. Finn,³⁷ K. Flasch,⁶⁰ S. Foley,²⁰ C. Forrest,⁵⁴ N. Fotopoulos,⁶⁰ A. Franzen,¹⁶ M. Frede,² M. Frei,⁴¹ Z. Frei,¹² A. Freise,⁴⁶ R. Frey,⁵³ T. Fricke,¹⁹ P. Fritschel,²⁰ V. V. Frolov,¹⁹ M. Fyffe,¹⁹ V. Galdi,⁵⁶ J. A. Garofoli,³⁶ I. Gholami,¹ J. A. Giaime,^21,19 S. Giampanis,² K. D. Giardina,¹⁹ K. Goda,²⁰ E. Goetz,⁵¹ L. M. Goggin,⁶⁰ G. González,²¹ M. L. Gorodetsky,²⁵ S. Goßler,² R. Gouaty,²¹ A. Grant,⁴⁸ S. Gras,⁵⁹ C. Gray,¹⁸ M. Gray,⁴ R. J. S. Greenhalgh,³⁰ A. M. Gretarsson,¹¹ F. Grimaldi,²⁰ R. Grosso,⁴² H. Grote,² S. Grunewald,¹ M. Guenther,¹⁸ E. K. Gustafson,¹⁷ R. Gustafson,⁵¹ B. Hage,¹⁶ J. M. Hallam,⁴⁶ D. Hammer,⁶⁰ G. D. Hammond,⁴⁸ C. Hanna,¹⁷ J. Hanson,¹⁹ J. Harms,⁵² G. M. Harry,²⁰ I. W. Harry,⁷ E. D. Harstad,⁵³ K. Haughian,⁴⁸ K. Hayama,⁴² J. Heefner,¹⁷ I. S. Heng,⁴⁸ A. Heptonstall,¹⁷ M. Hewitson,² S. Hild,⁴⁶ E. Hirose,³⁶ D. Hoak,¹⁹ K. A. Hodge,¹⁷ K. Holt,¹⁹ D. J. Hosken,⁴⁵ J. Hough,⁴⁸ D. Hoyland,⁵⁹ B. Hughey,²⁰ S. H. Huttner,⁴⁸ D. R. Ingram,¹⁸ T. Isogai,⁸ M. Ito,⁵³ A. Ivanov,¹⁷ B. Johnson,¹⁸ W. W. Johnson,²¹ D. I. Jones,⁵⁷ G. Jones,⁷ R. Jones,⁴⁸ L. Ju,⁵⁹ P. Kalmus,¹⁷ V. Kalogera,²⁸ S. Kandhasamy,⁵² J. Kanner,⁴⁹ D. Kasprzyk,⁴⁶ E. Katsavounidis,²⁰ K. Kawabe,¹⁸ S. Kawamura,²⁷ F. Kawazoe,² W. Kells,¹⁷ D. G. Keppel,¹⁷ A. Khalaidovski,² F. Y. Khalili,²⁵ R. Khan,¹⁰ E. Khazanov,¹⁴ P. King,¹⁷ J. S. Kissel,²¹ S. Klimenko,⁴⁷ K. Kokeyama,²⁷ V. Kondrashov,¹⁷ R. Kopparapu,³⁷ S. Koranda,⁶⁰ D. Kozak,¹⁷ B. Krishnan,¹ R. Kumar,⁴⁸ P. Kwee,¹⁶ P. K. Lam,⁴ M. Landry,¹⁸ B. Lantz,³⁵ A. Lazzarini,¹⁷ H. Lei,⁴² M. Lei,¹⁷ N. Leindecker,³⁵ I. Leonor,⁵³ C. Li,⁶ H. Lin,⁴⁷ P. E. Lindquist,¹⁷ T. B. Littenberg,²⁴ N. A. Lockerbie,⁵⁸ D. Lodhia,⁴⁶ M. Longo,⁵⁶ M. Lormand,¹⁹ P. Lu,³⁵ M. Lubinski,¹⁸ A. Lucianetti,⁴⁷ H. Lück,^2,16 B. Machenschalk,¹ M. MacInnis,²⁰ M. Mageswaran,¹⁷ K. Mailand,¹⁷ I. Mandel,²⁸ V. Mandic,⁵² S. Márka,¹⁰ Z. Márka,¹⁰ A. Markosyan,³⁵ J. Markowitz,²⁰ E. Maros,¹⁷ I. W. Martin,⁴⁸ R. M. Martin,⁴⁷ J. N. Marx,¹⁷ K. Mason,²⁰ F. Matichard,²¹ L. Matone,¹⁰ R. A. Matzner,⁴¹ N. Mavalvala,²⁰ R. McCarthy,¹⁸ D. E. McClelland,⁴ S. C. McGuire,³⁴ M. McHugh,²³ G. McIntyre,¹⁷ D. J. A. McKechan,⁷ K. McKenzie,⁴ M. Mehmet,² A. Melatos,³⁸ A. C. Melissinos,⁵⁴ D. F. Menéndez,³⁷ G. Mendell,¹⁸ R. A. Mercer,⁶⁰ S. Meshkov,¹⁷ C. Messenger,² M. S. Meyer,¹⁹ J. Miller,⁴⁸ J. Minelli,³⁷ Y. Mino,⁶ V. P. Mitrofanov,²⁵ G. Mitselmakher,⁴⁷ R. Mittleman,²⁰ O. Miyakawa,¹⁷ B. Moe,⁶⁰ S. D. Mohanty,⁴² S. R. P. Mohapatra,⁵⁰ G. Moreno,¹⁸ T. Morioka,²⁷ K. Mors,² K. Mossavi,² C. MowLowry,⁴ G. Mueller,⁴⁷ H. Müller-Ebhardt,² D. Muhammad,¹⁹ S. Mukherjee,⁴² H. Mukhopadhyay,¹⁵ A. Mullavey,⁴ J. Munch,⁴⁵ P. G. Murray,⁴⁸ E. Myers,¹⁸ J. Myers,¹⁸ T. Nash,¹⁷ J. Nelson,⁴⁸ G. Newton,⁴⁸ A. Nishizawa,²⁷ K. Numata,²⁶ J. O'Dell,³⁰ B. O'Reilly,¹⁹ R. O'Shaughnessy,³⁷ E. Ochsner,⁴⁹ G. H. Ogin,¹⁷ D. J. Ottaway,⁴⁵ R. S. Ottens,⁴⁷ H. Overmier,¹⁹ B. J. Owen,³⁷ Y. Pan,⁴⁹ C. Pankow,⁴⁷ M. A. Papa,^1,60 V. Parameshwaraiah,¹⁸ P. Patel,¹⁷ M. Pedraza,¹⁷ S. Penn,¹³ A. Perreca,⁴⁶ V. Pierro,⁵⁶ I. M. Pinto,⁵⁶ M. Pitkin,⁴⁸ H. J. Pletsch,² M. V. Plissi,⁴⁸ F. Postiglione,⁵⁵ M. Principe,⁵⁶ R. Prix,² L. Prokhorov,²⁵ O. Punken,² V. Quetschke,⁴⁷ F. J. Raab,¹⁸ D. S. Rabeling,⁴ H. Radkins,¹⁸ P. Raffai,¹² Z. Raics,¹⁰ N. Rainer,² M. Rakhmanov,⁴² V. Raymond,²⁸ C. M. Reed,¹⁸ T. Reed,²² H. Rehbein,² S. Reid,⁴⁸ D. H. Reitze,⁴⁷ R. Riesen,¹⁹ K. Riles,⁵¹ B. Rivera,¹⁸ P. Roberts,³ N. A. Robertson,^17,48 C. Robinson,⁷ E. L. Robinson,¹ S. Roddy,¹⁹ C. Röver,² J. Rollins,¹⁰ J. D. Romano,⁴² J. H. Romie,¹⁹ S. Rowan,⁴⁸ A. Rüdiger,² P. Russell,¹⁷ K. Ryan,¹⁸ S. Sakata,²⁷ L. Sancho de la Jordana,⁴⁴ V. Sandberg,¹⁸ V. Sannibale,¹⁷ L. Santamaría,¹ S. Saraf,³² P. Sarin,²⁰ B. S. Sathyaprakash,⁷ S. Sato,²⁷ M. Satterthwaite,⁴ P. R. Saulson,³⁶ R. Savage,¹⁸ P. Savov,⁶ M. Scanlan,²² R. Schilling,² R. Schnabel,² R. Schofield,⁵³ B. Schulz,² B. F. Schutz,^1,7 P. Schwinberg,¹⁸ J. Scott,⁴⁸ S. M. Scott,⁴ A. C. Searle,¹⁷ B. Sears,¹⁷ F. Seifert,² D. Sellers,¹⁹ A. S. Sengupta,¹⁷ A. Sergeev,¹⁴ B. Shapiro,²⁰ P. Shawhan,⁴⁹ D. H. Shoemaker,²⁰ A. Sibley,¹⁹ X. Siemens,⁶⁰ D. Sigg,¹⁸ S. Sinha,³⁵ A. M. Sintes,⁴⁴ B. J. J. Slagmolen,⁴ J. Slutsky,²¹ J. R. Smith,³⁶ M. R. Smith,¹⁷ N. D. Smith,²⁰ K. Somiya,⁶ B. Sorazu,⁴⁸ A. Stein,²⁰ L. C. Stein,²⁰ S. Steplewski,⁶¹ A. Stochino,¹⁷ R. Stone,⁴² K. A. Strain,⁴⁸ S. Strigin,²⁵ A. Stroeer,²⁶ A. L. Stuver,¹⁹ T. Z. Summerscales,³ K.-X. Sun,³⁵ M. Sung,²¹ P. J. Sutton,⁷ G. P. Szokoly,¹² D. Talukder,⁶¹ L. Tang,⁴² D. B. Tanner,⁴⁷ S. P. Tarabrin,²⁵ J. R. Taylor,² R. Taylor,¹⁷ J. Thacker,¹⁹ K. A. Thorne,¹⁹ K. S. Thorne,⁶ A. Thüring,¹⁶ K. V. Tokmakov,⁴⁸ C. Torres,¹⁹ C. Torrie,¹⁷ G. Traylor,¹⁹ M. Trias,⁴⁴ D. Ugolini,⁴³ J. Ulmen,³⁵ K. Urbanek,³⁵ H. Vahlbruch,¹⁶ M. Vallisneri,⁶ C. Van Den Broeck,⁷ M. V. van der Sluys,²⁸ A. A. van Veggel,⁴⁸ S. Vass,¹⁷ R. Vaulin,⁶⁰ A. Vecchio,⁴⁶ J. Veitch,⁴⁶ P. Veitch,⁴⁵ C. Veltkamp,² A. Villar,¹⁷ C. Vorvick,¹⁸ S. P. Vyachanin,²⁵ S. J. Waldman,²⁰ L. Wallace,¹⁷ R. L. Ward,¹⁷ A. Weidner,² M. Weinert,² A. J. Weinstein,¹⁷ R. Weiss,²⁰ L. Wen,^6,59 S. Wen,²¹ K. Wette,⁴ J. T. Whelan,^1,29 S. E. Whitcomb,¹⁷ B. F. Whiting,⁴⁷ C. Wilkinson,¹⁸ P. A. Willems,¹⁷ H. R. Williams,³⁷ L. Williams,⁴⁷ B. Willke,^2,16 I. Wilmut,³⁰ L. Winkelmann,² W. Winkler,² C. C. Wipf,²⁰ A. G. Wiseman,⁶⁰ G. Woan,⁴⁸ R. Wooley,¹⁹ J. Worden,¹⁸ W. Wu,⁴⁷ I. Yakushin,¹⁹ H. Yamamoto,¹⁷ Z. Yan,⁵⁹ S. Yoshida,³³ M. Zanolin,¹¹ J. Zhang,⁵¹ L. Zhang,¹⁷ C. Zhao,⁵⁹ N. Zotov,²² M. E. Zucker,²⁰ H. zur Mühlen,¹⁶ and J. Zweizig¹⁷

(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
⁶Caltech-CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
⁷Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, United Kingdom
⁸Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA
⁹Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
¹⁰Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
¹¹Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301, USA
¹²Eötvös University, ELTE 1053 Budapest, Hungary
¹³Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA
¹⁴Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia
¹⁵Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune - 411007, India
¹⁶Leibniz Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
¹⁷LIGO–California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
¹⁸LIGO–Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
¹⁹LIGO–Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA
²⁰LIGO–Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
²¹Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
²²Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana 71272, USA
²³Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA
²⁴Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA
²⁵Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia
²⁶NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
²⁷National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
²⁸Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
²⁹Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
³⁰Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, HSIC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
³¹San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192, USA
³²Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California 94928, USA
³³Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana 70402, USA
³⁴Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA
³⁵Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
³⁶Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
³⁷The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
³⁸The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia
³⁹The University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA
⁴⁰The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
⁴¹The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
⁴²The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA
⁴³Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA
⁴⁴Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
⁴⁵University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
⁴⁶University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
⁴⁷University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
⁴⁸University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
⁴⁹University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
⁵⁰University of Massachusetts–Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
⁵¹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
⁵²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
⁵³University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
⁵⁴University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
⁵⁵University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (Salerno), Italy
⁵⁶University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy
⁵⁷University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
⁵⁸University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XQ, United Kingdom
⁵⁹University of Western Australia, Crawley, Washington 6009, Australia, USA
⁶⁰University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
⁶¹Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA

D. P. Anderson
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA

This paper reports on an all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves from sources such as deformed isolated rapidly spinning neutron stars. The analysis uses 840 hours of data from 66 days of the fifth LIGO science run (S5). The data were searched for quasimonochromatic waves with frequencies f in the range from 50 to 1500 Hz, with a linear frequency drift f-dot (measured at the solar system barycenter) in the range -f/tau<f-dot <0.1f/tau, for a minimum spin-down age tau of 1000 years for signals below 400 Hz and 8000 years above 400 Hz. The main computational work of the search was distributed over approximately 100 000 computers volunteered by the general public. This large computing power allowed the use of a relatively long coherent integration time of 30 hours while searching a large parameter space. This search extends Einstein@Home's previous search in LIGO S4 data to about 3 times better sensitivity. No statistically significant signals were found. In the 125–225 Hz band, more than 90% of sources with dimensionless gravitational-wave strain tensor amplitude greater than 3×10^-24 would have been detected.

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