Strange stars as persistent sources of gravitational waves

Details Strange stars as persistent sources of gravitational waves Strange stars as persistent sources of gravitational waves

2001-11-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0111582v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.337:1224,2002

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

MNRAS format, 5 eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05837.x

We investigate the relevance of the gravitational-wave driven r-mode instability for strange stars. We find that the unstable r-modes affect strange stars in a way that is quite distinct from the neutron star case. For accreting strange stars we show that the onset of r-mode instability does not lead to the thermo-gravitational runaway that is likely to occur in neutron stars. Instead, the strange star evolves towards a quasi-equilibrium state on a timescale of about a year. This mechanism could thus explain the clustering of spin-frequencies inferred from kHz QPO data in Low-mass X-ray binaries. For young strange stars we show that the r-mode driven spin-evolution is also distinct from the neutron star case. In a young strange star the r-mode undergoes short cycles of instability during the first few months. This is followed by a quasi-adiabatic phase where the r-mode remains at a small, roughly constant, amplitude for thousands of years. Another distinguishing feature from the neutron star case is that the r-modes in a strange star never grow to large amplitudes. Our results suggest that the r-modes in strange star emit a persistent gravitational-wave signal that should be detectable with large-scale interferometers given an observation time of a few months. If detected, these signals would provide unique evidence for the existence of strange stars, which would put useful constraints on the parameters of QCD.

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