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Gravitational Radiation and the Oblique Rotator Model

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IT has been known for some time that gravitational radiation can play an important part in the energetic consideration of neutron stars1,2 and its effects have been included in some of the recent investigations of pulsar models3–5. In all of this, however, only the energy loss has been considered, and the angular momentum loss has been completely ignored. We have recently looked into the problem for the case of an oblique rotator, and we obtained expressions for both of these losses. We have also listed out clearly the conditions when all these become comparable with effects from the magnetic dipole mechanism, and a comparison with conclusions reported by others3,5 is also made.

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