Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
May 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000aas...196.1701h&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 196th AAS Meeting, #17.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.695
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
Recent work has shown that a young, rapidly rotating neutron star loses angular momentum to gravitational waves generated by unstable r-mode oscillations. We study the spin evolution of a young, magnetic neutron star including both the effects of gravitational radiation and magnetic braking (modeled as magnetic dipole radiation). Our phenomenological description of nonlinear r-modes is similar to, but distinct from, that of Owen et al. (1998) in that our treatment is consistent with the principle of adiabatic invariance in the limit when direct driving and damping of the mode are absent. We show that, while magnetic braking tends to increase the r-mode amplitude by spinning down the neutron star, it nevertheless reduces the efficiency of gravitational wave emission from the star. For B ≳ 1014 (ν s/ 300 Hz)2 G, where ν s is the spin frequency, the spindown rate and the gravitational waveforms are significantly modified by the effect of magnetic braking. We also estimate the growth rate of the r-mode due to electromagnetic (fast magnetosonic) wave emission and due to Alfven wave emission in the neutron star magnetosphere. The Alfven wave driving of the r-mode becomes more important than the gravitational radiation driving when B ≳ 1013 (ν s/150 Hz)3 G; the electromagnetic wave driving of the r-mode is much weaker. Finally, we study the properties of local Rossby-Alfven waves inside the neutron star and show that the fractional change of the r-mode frequency due to the magnetic field is of order 0.5 (B/1016 G)2(ν s s/100 Hz)-2.
Ho Wynn C. G.
Lai Dong
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