Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21347714i&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #477.14; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.445
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Core collapse in massive rotating nonmagnetic stars may hangup before neutron star densities are reached when rotationally supported or partially rotation supported, hot, lepton-rich objects known as fizzlers form. For typical massive core masses, fizzlers may form if the core has angular momentum J > 1049 g cm2 s-1. Newly formed fizzlers are stable to secular and dynamic nonaxisymmetric instabilities because of the high electron fraction per baryon, Ye > 0.3, and high entropy per baryon, Sn = 1-2 k of fizzler material, and the long-term evolution of a fizzler to neutron star density is driven by deleptonization and cooling of the lepton-rich fizzler material. Both processes lead to pressure loss which causes the fizzler to contract and spin-up. All deleptonizing fizzlers eventually become subject to gravito-rotation-driven nonaxisymmetric instabilities before they reach neutron star density. We study the development of barlike instabilities in deleptonizing fizzlers. We find that vigorous growth in barlike modes occurs only after the bar mode dynamic instability threshold is passed. Because barlike modes break axial symmetry, a burst of gravitational wave (GW) radiation is produced as barlike modes develop. For typical fizzler properties, the GW radiation will have frequency 300-600 Hz with strains of 10-23-10-23, for fizzlers at distances of 15 Mpc ( Virgo cluster of galaxies). Fizzlers in the Virgo cluster would be easily detectable by the gravitational wave obervatory LIGO if the barlike mode persisted for several hundred cycles. We find that barlike modes in fizzlers persist for at least 15-30 cycles in our simulations, depending on the deleptonization rate.
Durisen Richard H.
Imamura James N.
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