Gravitational-wave driven instability of rotating relativistic stars
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-11-26 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
A brief review of the stability of rotating relativistic stars is followed by a more detailed discussion of recent work on an instability of r-modes, modes of rotating stars that have axial parity in the slow-rotation limit. These modes may dominate the spin-down of neutron stars that are rapidly rotating at birth, and the gravitational waves they emit may be detectable.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9908083,
title = {Gravitational-wave driven instability of rotating relativistic stars},
author = {John L. Friedman and Keith H. Lockitch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9908083},
year = {2008}
}
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14 pages PTPTeX v.1.0. Contribution to proceedings of the 1999 Yukawa International Seminar