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Viscous damping of r-modes: Small amplitude instability

Mark G. Alford, Simin Mahmoodifar, and Kai Schwenzer

  • Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA

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Phys. Rev. D 85, 024007 – Published 6 January, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.024007

Abstract

We study the viscous damping of r-modes of compact stars and analyze in detail the regions where small amplitude modes are unstable to the emission of gravitational radiation. We present general expressions for the viscous damping times for arbitrary forms of interacting dense matter and derive general semi-analytic results for the boundary of the instability region. These results show that many aspects, such as the physically important minima of the instability boundary, are surprisingly insensitive to detailed microscopic properties of the considered form of matter. Our general expressions are applied to the cases of hadronic stars, strange stars, and hybrid stars, and we focus on equations of state that are compatible with the recent measurement of a heavy compact star. We find that hybrid stars with a sufficiently small core can “masquerade” as neutron stars and feature an instability region that is indistinguishable from that of a neutron star, whereas neutron stars with a core density high enough to allow direct Urca reactions feature a notch on the right side of the instability region.

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Phys. Rev. D 85, 024007– Published 6 January, 2012
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