On the r-mode spectrum of relativistic stars: Inclusion of the radiation reaction

Details On the r-mode spectrum of relativistic stars: Inclusion of the radiation reaction On the r-mode spectrum of relativistic stars: Inclusion of the radiation reaction

2001-06-22

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0106073v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 330 (2002) 1027

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

9 pages, 6 figures, MNRAS type setting

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05169.x

We consider both mode calculations and time evolutions of axial r-modes for relativistic uniformly rotating non-barotropic neutron stars, using the slow-rotation formalism, in which rotational corrections are considered up to linear order in the angular velocity \Omega. We study various stellar models, such as uniform density models, polytropic models with different polytropic indices n, and some models based on realistic equations of state. For weakly relativistic uniform density models, and polytropes with small values of n, we can recover the growth times predicted from Newtonian theory when standard multipole formulae for the gravitational radiation are used. However, for more compact models, we find that relativistic linear perturbation theory predicts a weakening of the instability compared to the Newtonian results. When turning to polytropic equations of state, we find that for certain ranges of the polytropic index n, the r-mode disappears, and instead of a growth, the time evolutions show a rapid decay of the amplitude. This is clearly at variance with the Newtonian predictions. It is, however, fully consistent with our previous results obtained in the low-frequency approximation.

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