Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-11-30
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.316:917,2000
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03649.x
We have investigated an influence of the r-mode instability on hypercritically accreting ($\dot{M}\sim 1M_\odot {y}^{-1}$) neutron stars in close binary systems during their common envelope phases based on the scenario proposed by Bethe et al. \shortcite{bethe-brown-lee}. On the one hand neutron stars are heated by the accreted matter at the stellar surface, but on the other hand they are also cooled down by the neutrino radiation. At the same time, the accreted matter transports its angular momentum and mass to the star. We have studied the evolution of the stellar mass, temperature and rotational frequency. The gravitational-wave-driven instability of the r-mode oscillation strongly suppresses spinning-up of the star, whose final rotational frequency is well below the mass-shedding limit, typically as small as 10% of that of the mass-shedding state. On a very short time scale the rotational frequency tends to approach a certain constant value and saturates there as far as the amount of the accreted mass does not exceed a certain limit to collapse to a black hole. This implies that the similar mechanism of gravitational radiation as the so-called Wagoner star may work in this process. The star is spun up by accretion until the angular momentum loss by gravitational radiation balances the accretion torque. The time-integrated dimensionless strain of the radiated gravitational wave may be large enough to be detectable by the gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO II.
Eriguchi Yoshiharu
Yoshida Shin'ichirou
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