Gravitational Wave Emission from Galactic Radio Pulsars
Astrophysics
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
We consider in this work continuous gravitational wave (GW) emission from non-axisymmetric radio pulsars. We treat in some detail the observational issues related to the known radio pulsar sample with the aim of unveiling the actual number of sources contributing to GW, which are likely to be the main contributors of GWs. It is shown that the operation of spheroidal GW detectors and full-size interferometers could detect this component of the radiation or impose useful limits on the effective oblateness of young radio pulsars.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9704155,
title = {Gravitational Wave Emission from Galactic Radio Pulsars},
author = {J. A. de Freitas Pacheco and J. E. Horvath},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9704155},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, RevTex , no figures , to appear in Phys. Rev. D