Gravitational radiation from young magnetars: Preliminary results

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