Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-01-07
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 340 (2003) 247
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 LaTeX pages, 4 eps figures; accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06288.x
The forced motion of superfluid vortices in shear oscillations of rotating solid neutron star matter produces damping of the mode. A simple model of the unpinning and repinning processes is described, with numerical calculations of the consequent energy decay times. These are of the order of 1 s or more for typical anomalous X-ray pulsars but become very short for the general population of radio pulsars. The superfluid friction processes considered here may also be significant for the damping of r-modes in rapidly rotating neutron stars.
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