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Several past searches for gravitational waves from a selection of known pulsars have been performed with data from the science runs of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational‐Wave Observatory (LIGO) gravitational wave detectors. So far these have led to no detection, but upper limits on the gravitational wave amplitudes have been set. Here we study our intrinsic ability to detect, and estimate the gravitational wave amplitude for non‐accreting pulsars. Using spin‐down limits on emission as a guide we examine amplitudes that would be required to observe known pulsars with future detectors (Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and the Einstein Telescope), assuming that they are triaxial stars emitting at precisely twice the known rotation frequency. Maximum allowed amplitudes depend on the stars’ equation of state (e.g. a normal neutron star, a quark star, a hybrid star) and the theoretical mass quadrupoles that they can sustain. We study what range of quadrupoles, and therefore equation of state (EoS), would be consistent with being able to detect these sources. For globular cluster pulsars, with spin‐downs masked by accelerations within the cluster, we examine what spin‐down values gravitational wave observations would be able to set. For all pulsars we also alternatively examine what internal magnetic fields they would need to sustain observable ellipticities.

Prospects of observing continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars