Radiation of Angular Momentum by Neutrinos from Merged Binary Neutron Stars

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1998-01-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9801294v1

Astrophys.J. 504 (1998) 431

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages AASTeX, 2 figures, to appear in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/306067

We study neutrino emission from the remnant of an inspiraling binary neutron star following coalescence. The mass of the merged remnant is likely to exceed the stability limit of a cold, rotating neutron star. However, the angular momentum of the remnant may also approach or even exceed the Kerr limit, J/M^2 = 1, so that total collapse may not be possible unless some angular momentum is dissipated. We find that neutrino emission is very inefficient in decreasing the angular momentum of these merged objects and may even lead to a small increase in J/M^2. We illustrate these findings with a post-Newtonian, ellipsoidal model calculation. Simple arguments suggest that the remnant may form a bar mode instability on a timescale similar to or shorter than the neutrino emission timescale, in which case the evolution of the remnant will be dominated by the emission of gravitational waves.

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