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Temperature-dependent r-modes in superfluid neutron stars stratified by muons

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2018-08-13 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We calculate the finite-temperature r-mode spectrum of a slowly rotating superfluid Newtonian neutron star neglecting the entrainment between neutron and proton liquid components (i.e., neglecting the off-diagonal element of the entrainment matrix). We show that for `minimal' NS core composition (neutrons, protons, and electrons) only two m=2m=2 r-modes exist --- normal mode, which is similar to ordinary r-mode in a nonsuperfluid star, and a superfluid temperature-dependent mode. Accounting for muons in the core dramatically modifies the oscillation spectrum, resulting in an infinite set of superfluid r-modes, whose frequencies vary with temperature. We demonstrate that the normal r-mode can exhibit avoided crossings with superfluid modes at certain `resonance' temperatures, where it dissipates strongly, which leads to substantial suppression of the r-mode instability near these temperatures. The corresponding instability windows are calculated and discussed.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1705.06027,
  title  = {Temperature-dependent r-modes in superfluid neutron stars stratified by muons},
  author = {Elena M. Kantor and Mikhail E. Gusakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.06027},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

25 pages, 14 figures, accepted to MNRAS