Astrophysical and cosmological scenarios for gravitational wave heating
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2024-07-25 v1
Abstract
Gravitational waves (GWs) passing through a viscous shell of matter are expected to be damped resulting in an increase in the temperature of the fluid as energy is transferred to it from the GWs. In previous work we constructed a model for this process, obtaining an expression for the temperature distribution inside the shell, and it was shown that the temperature increase can be astrophysically significant. In this paper we extend the analysis to GW heating and damping following a binary neutron star merger, GW heating during a core-collapse supernova, and primordial gravitational waves.
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@article{arxiv.2407.17143,
title = {Astrophysical and cosmological scenarios for gravitational wave heating},
author = {Nigel T. Bishop and Vishnu Kakkat and Amos S. Kubeka and Monos Naidoo and Petrus J. van der Walt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.17143},
year = {2024}
}