Gravitational-wave driven instability of rotating relativistic stars

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31 August 1999

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.gr-qc/9908083

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

ROTATING RELATIVISTIC STARS
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
DRIVEN INSTABILITY
NEUTRON STARS
WAVE DRIVEN
STARS

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Published version: Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, 136, 121.

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