Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-02-01
Astrophys.J. 571 (2002) 435
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
21 pages, 1 figure, to appear in ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/339858
The r-modes of neutron stars can be driven unstable by gravitational radiation. While linear perturbation theory predicts the existence of this instability, linear theory can't provide any information about the nonlinear development of the instability. The subject of this paper is the weakly nonlinear regime of fluid dynamics. In the weakly nonlinear regime, the nonlinear fluid equations are approximated by an infinite set of oscillators which are coupled together so that terms quadratic in the mode amplitudes are kept in the equations of motion. In this paper, the coupling coefficients between the r-modes are computed. The stellar model assumed is a polytropic model where a source of buoyancy is included so that the Schwarzschild discriminant is nonzero. The properties of these coupling coefficients and the types of resonances possible are discussed in this paper. It is shown that no exact resonance involving the unstable $l=m=2$ r-mode occur and that only a small number of modes have a dimensionless coupling constant larger than unity. However, an infinite number of resonant mode triplets exist which couple indirectly to the unstable r-mode. All couplings in this paper involve the l>|m| r-modes which only exist if the star is slowly rotating. This work is complementary to that of Schenk et al (2002) who consider rapidly rotating stars which are neutral to convection.
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