R-mode astronomy
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2016-03-23 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
Next generation gravitational wave detectors will start taking data in the near future. Here we discuss the chances to detect the continuous emission from r-mode oscillations in compact stars and study which properties of compact stars we can infer from such novel data. In particular we show that the combination of the gravitational wave data with electromagnetic multi-messenger observations could give us detailed insight into compact star properties, ranging from precise mass-radius measurements to the determination of the equation of state and the phase structure of dense matter.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1510.07051,
title = {R-mode astronomy},
author = {Kostas D. Kokkotas and Kai Schwenzer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.07051},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
15 pages, 6 figures, to be published in the EPJA Topical Issue on "Exotic Matter in Neutron Stars"