Tidal Love Numbers of Neutron and Self-Bound Quark Stars

Details Tidal Love Numbers of Neutron and Self-Bound Quark Stars Tidal Love Numbers of Neutron and Self-Bound Quark Stars

2010-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/1004.5098v1

Phys.Rev.D82:024016,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

18 pages, 17 figures, 1 table

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.82.024016

Gravitational waves from the final stages of inspiralling binary neutron stars are expected to be one of the most important sources for ground-based gravitational wave detectors. The masses of the components are determinable from the orbital and chirp frequencies during the early part of the evolution during which tidal effects provide small correction; however, during this phase the signal is relatively clean. The accumulated phase shift due to tidal corrections is characterized by a single quantity, the Love number, which is sensitive to the compactness parameter M/R and the star's internal structure, and its determination could constrain the star's radius. We show that the Love number of normal neutron stars are much different from those of self-bound strange quark matter stars and could therefore provide an important way to distinguish between these two classes of stars.

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