1203.0401 (I. Santiago-Prieto et al.)

Prospects for transient gravitational waves at r-mode frequencies
associated with pulsar glitches    [PDF]

I. Santiago-Prieto, I. S. Heng, D. I. Jones, J. Clark

Glitches in pulsars are likely to trigger oscillation modes in the fluid interior of neutron stars. We examined these oscillations specifically at r-mode frequencies. The excited r-modes will emit gravitational waves and can have long damping time scales O(minutes - days). We use simple estimates of how much energy the glitch might put into the r-mode and assess the detectability of the emitted gravitational waves with future interferometers.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0401