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Bulk viscosity and r-modes of neutron stars

Astrophysics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

The bulk viscosity due to the non-leptonic process involving hyperons in KK^- condensed matter is discussed here. We find that the bulk viscosity is modified in a superconducting phase. Further, we demonstrate how the exotic bulk viscosity coefficient influences rr-modes of neutron stars which might be sources of detectable gravitational waves.

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@article{arxiv.0808.1145,
  title  = {Bulk viscosity and r-modes of neutron stars},
  author = {Debarati Chatterjee and Debades Bandyopadhyay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.1145},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 page, 2 figures; presented in the Quark Matter 2008 held in Jaipur, India from 4-10 February, 2008; to be published in J. Phys. G