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Gravitational Wave Emission from Galactic Radio Pulsars
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.Comment: 7 pages, RevTex , no figures , to appear in Phys. Rev.