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Gravitational Waves from Wobbling Pulsars

J. C. N. de Araújo, J. A. de Freitas Pacheco, J. E. Horvath, M. Cattani

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9410047

Abstract

The prospects for detection of gravitational waves from precessing pulsars have been considered by constructing fully relativistic rotating neutron star models and evaluating the expected wave amplitude h from a galactic source. For a "typical" neutron matter equation of state and observed rotation rates, it is shown that moderate wobble angles may render an observable signal from a nearby source once the present generation of interferometric antennas becomes operative.

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