GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE EMISSION FROM GALACTIC RADIO PULSARS

We consider in this work continuous gravitational wave (GW) emission f rom nonaxisymmetric radio pulsars. We treat in some detail the observa tional 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 GW's. It is shown that the opera tion of spheroidal GW detectors and full-size interferometers could de tect this component of the radiation or impose useful limits on the ef fective oblateness of young radio pulsars.