Gravitational-Wave Driven Instability of Rotating Relativistic Stars
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- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement
- Vol. 136, 121-134
- https://doi.org/10.1143/ptps.136.121
Abstract
A brief review of the stability of rotating relativistic stars is followed by a more detailed discussion of recent work on an instability of r-modes, modes of rotating stars that have axial parity in the slow-rotation limit. These modes may dominate the spin-down of neutron stars that are rapidly rotating at birth, and the gravitational waves they emit may be detectable.Keywords
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