Continuous gravitational waves from Galactic neutron stars: demography, detectability and prospects

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We study the prospects for detection of continuous gravitational signals from "normal" Galactic neutron stars, i.e.

• non-recycled ones.
• We use a synthetic population generated by evolving stellar remnants in time, according to several models.
• We consider the most recent constraints set by all-sky searches for continuous gravitational waves and use them for our detectability criteria.