A STUDY OF THE GRAVITATIONAL WAVE FORM FROM PULSARS
We present analytical and numerical studies of the Fourier transform (FT) of the gravitational wave (GW) signal from a pulsar, taking into account the rotation and orbital motion of the Earth. We also briefly discuss the Zak– Gelfand integral transform and a special class of the generalized hypergeometric function of potential relevance. The Zak–Gelfand integral transform that arises in our analytic approach has also been useful for Schr¨ odinger operators in periodic potentials in condensed matter physics (Bloch wavefunctions) and holds promise for the study of periodic GW signals for long integration times.