Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-09-22
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
19 pages, 2 figures. Typos corrected, a few clarifications and a figure added. To appear in MNRAS
Scientific paper
In this paper we investigate the effect of a pinned superfluid component on the gravitational wave emission of a steadily rotating deformed neutron star. We show that the superfluid pinning allows the possibility for there to be gravitational wave emission at both the stellar spin frequency $\Omega$ and its first harmonic, $2\Omega$. This contrasts with the conventional case where there is no pinned superfluidity, where either only the $2\Omega$ harmonic is present, or else the star undergoes precession, a feature which is not believed to be common in the known pulsar population. This work motivates the carrying out of gravitational wave searches where both the $\Omega$ and $2\Omega$ harmonics are searched for, even in targeted searches for waves from known pulsars which aren't observed to precess. Observation of such a two-component signal would provide evidence in favour of pinned superfluidity inside the star.
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