Gravitational Waves from the Pulsar Magnetosphere
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2023-12-20 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
We investigate the generation of gravitational waves from the rotation of an orthogonal pulsar magnetosphere in flat space time. We calculate the first order metric perturbation due to the rotation of the non-axisymmetric distribution of electromagnetic energy density around the central star. We show that gravitational waves from a strong magnetic field pulsar right after its formation within a distance of 1 kpc may be detectable with the new generation of gravitational wave detectors.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2312.11586,
title = {Gravitational Waves from the Pulsar Magnetosphere},
author = {Ioannis Contopoulos and Demosthenes Kazanas and Demetrios B. Papadopoulos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.11586},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
9 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices