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Earth-based gravitational wave detection from pulsars

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The main features of continuous gravitational radiation bathing the Earth has been evaluated for a set of 558 pulsars. In particular, the maximum gravitational wave background and the maximum gravitational wave emission have been evaluated for each source and compared with the projected sensitivities of the planned Earth based very long baseline interferometric antennas for gravitational wave detection, like VIRGO and LIGO. This study shows that such detectors have a good chance of detecting gravitational waves emitted from this class of astrophysical sources.

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  1. Instituto Astronômico e Geofísico, Universidad de São Paulo, Brazil

    Walter Velloso

  2. Faculdad Hebraico-Brasileira Renascença, Universidad de São Paulo, Brazil

    Walter Velloso

  3. Faculdad Sant' Anna, Universidad de São Paulo, Brazil

    Walter Velloso

  4. Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Universitá di Napoli ”Federico II”, Mostra d'Oltremare Pad. 19, I-80125, Napoli, Italy

    Fabrizio Barone, Aniello Grado & Leopoldo Milano

  5. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, sez. Napoli, Mostra d'Oltremare Pad. 19, I-80125, Napoli, Italy

    Fabrizio Barone, Enrico Calloni, Luciano Di Fiore, Aniello Grado, Leopoldo Milano & Guido Russo

  6. Dipartimento di Fisica, Arcavacata di Rende, Universitá della Calabria, I-87036, Cosenza, Italy

    Guido Russo

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Velloso, W., Barone, F., Calloni, E. et al. Earth-based gravitational wave detection from pulsars. Gen Relat Gravit 28, 613–631 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02105070

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