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Issue A&A Volume 367, Number 2, February IV 2001 Page(s) 525 - 531 Section Formation, structure and evolution of stars DOI 10.1051/0004-6361:20000452

A&A 367, 525-531 (2001)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20000452

Gravitational radiation from young magnetars: Preliminary results

C. Palomba<sup>1, 2

1</sup>  Dipartimento di Fisica "G. Marconi", Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
²  Sezione INFN Roma1, Piazzale A. Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy

(Received 6 September 2000 / Accepted 6 November 2000)

Abstract
We consider newborn magnetars as sources of gravitational radiation. We focus attention on the early stages of their life, when, due to the distortion induced by the strong magnetic field, a large amount of radiation could be emitted. Many aspects of the characteristics and evolution of newborn neutron stars endowed with a large magnetic field are still poorly known, and we perform calculations making some simplifying assumptions. Our preliminary results suggest that this kind of source deserves deeper study.

Key words: magnetic fields -- gravitational waves -- stars: neutron

Offprint request: C. Palomba, cristiano.palomba@roma1.infn.it

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