Low-$T/|W|$ instabilities in differentially rotating proto-neutron stars with magnetic fields

Details Low-$T/|W|$ instabilities in differentially rotating proto-neutron stars with magnetic fields Low-$T/|W|$ instabilities in differentially rotating proto-neutron stars with magnetic fields

2010-11-22

arxiv.org/abs/1011.4887v1

2011 MNRAS 413 2207

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

12 pages, 6 figures; submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18296.x

Recent hydrodynamical simulations have shown that differentially rotating neutron stars formed in core-collapse supernovae may develop global non-axisymmetric instabilities even when $T/|W|$ (the ratio of the rotational kinetic energy $T$ to the gravitational potential energy $|W|$) is relatively small (less than 0.1). Such low-$T/|W|$ instability can give rise to efficient gravitational wave emission from the proto-neutron star. We investigate how this instability is affected by magnetic fields using a cylindrical stellar model. Wave absorption at the corotation resonance plays an important role in facilitating the hydrodynamic low-$T/|W|$ instability. In the presence of a toroidal magnetic field, the corotation resonance is split into two magnetic resonances where wave absorptions take place. We show that the toroidal magnetic field suppresses the low-$T/|W|$ instability when the total magnetic energy $W_{\rm B}$ is of order $0.2\,T$ or larger, corresponding to toroidal fields of a few $\times 10^{16}$ G or stronger. Although poloidal magnetic fields do not influence the instability directly, they can affect the instability by generating toroidal fields through linear winding of the initial poloidal field and magneto-rotational instability. We show that an initial poloidal field with strength as small as $10^{14}$ G may suppress the low-$T/|W|$ instability.

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