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The dynamics of the solar core cannot be properly constrained through the analysis of acoustic oscillation modes. Gravity modes are necessary to understand the structure and dynamics of the deepest layers of the Sun. Through recent…

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We study the oscillations and stability of self-gravitating cylindrically symmetric fluid systems and collisionless systems. This is done by studying small perturbations to the equilibrium system and finding the normal modes, using methods…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-15 Patrick C. Breysse , Marc Kamionkowski , Andrew Benson

Targeted searches of continuous waves from spinning neutron stars normally assume that the frequency of the gravitational wave signal is at a given known ratio with respect to the rotational frequency of the source, e.g. twice for an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Pia Astone , Alberto Colla , Sabrina D'Antonio , Sergio Frasca , Cristiano Palomba , Roberto Serafinelli

Stars are not perfectly spherically symmetric. They are deformed by rotation and magnetic fields. Until now, the study of stellar shapes has only been possible with optical interferometry for a few of the fastest-rotating nearby stars. We…

An understanding of the dynamics of differentially rotating systems is key to many areas of astrophysics. We investigate the oscillations of a simple system exhibiting differential rotation, and discuss issues concerning the role of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-09 Anna L. Watts , Nils Andersson , Horst Beyer , Bernard F. Schutz

R-modes of neutron stars could be a source of gravitational waves for ground based detectors. If the precise frequency $\sigma$ is known, guided gravitational wave searches with enhanced detectability are possible. Because of its physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-05 Michael Jasiulek , Cecilia Chirenti

Using a metric perturbation method, we study gravitational waves from a test particle scattered by a spherically symmetric relativistic star. We calculate the energy spectrum and the waveform of gravitational waves for axial modes. Since…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kazuhiro Tominaga , Motoyuki Saijo , Kei-ichi Maeda

We investigate properties of $r$-mode instability in slowly rotating relativistic polytropes. Inside the star slow rotation and low frequency formalism that was mainly developed by Kojima is employed to study axial oscillations restored by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Shijun Yoshida , Toshifumi Futamase

We consider the spin evolution of highly magnetized neutron stars in a hypercritical inflow just after their birth in supernovae. Presence of a strong magnetic field could deform the star and if the symmetry axis of the field is misaligned…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Shin Yoshida

Context: Mode identification is a crucial step to comparing observed frequencies with theoretical ones, but has proven to be difficult in rapidly rotating stars. Aims: To further constrain mode identification, we aim to accurately calculate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 D. R. Reese , V. Prat , C. Barban , C. van 't Veer-Menneret , K. B. MacGregor

We study gravitational waves from a spinning test particle scattered by a relativistic star using a perturbation method. The present analysis is restricted to axial modes. By calculating the energy spectrum, the waveforms and the total…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Kazuhiro Tominaga , Motoyuki Saijo , Kei-ichi Maeda

Acoustic modes of oscillation are affected by stellar activity, however it is unclear how starspots contribute to these changes. Here we investigate the nonmagnetic effects of starspots on global modes with angular degree $\ell \leq 2$ in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Emanuele Papini , Aaron C. Birch , Laurent Gizon , Shravan M. Hanasoge

We examine pulsational stability of low $m$ $r$ modes in SPB stars by calculating fully nonadiabatic oscillations of uniformly rotating stars, where $m$ is an integer representing the azimuthal wave number around the rotation axis. $R$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Umin Lee

Gravito-inertial-mode asteroseismology of intermediate-mass main-sequence stars took off with the 5-month uninterrupted light curves of the CoRoT space mission. It was developed in detail from the 4-year-long Kepler light curves, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Zhao Guo , Conny Aerts

In the context of the space-based mission CoRoT, devoted to asteroseismology and search for planet transits, we analyse the accuracy of fundamental stellar parameters (mass, radius, luminosity) that can be obtained from asteroseismological…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Mulet-Marquis , I. Baraffe , S. Aigrain , F. Pont

We provide a bird's-eye view of neutron-star seismology, which aims to probe the extreme physics associated with these objects, in the context of gravitational-wave astronomy. Focussing on the fundamental mode of oscillation, which is an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-19 N. Andersson

Non-radial oscillation modes of a neutron star possess valuable information about its internal structure and nuclear physics. Starting from the quadrupolar order, such modes under general relativity are known as quasi-normal modes since…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-22 Shu Yan Lau , Siddarth Ajith , Victor Guedes , Kent Yagi

Bowman et al. (2019) reported low-frequency photometric variability in 164 O- and B-type stars observed with K2 and TESS. They interpret these motions as internal gravity waves, which could be excited stochastically by convection in the…

We study the formation of photospheric emission lines in O stars and show that the rectangular profiles, sometimes double peaked, that are observed for some stars are a direct consequence of rotation, and it is unnecessary to invoke an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 D. John Hillier , Jean-Claude Bouret , Thierry Lanz , Joseph R. Busche

The frequency of maximum oscillation power measured in dwarfs and giants exhibiting solar-like pulsations provides a precise, and potentially accurate, inference of the stellar surface gravity. An extensive comparison for about 40…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Thierry Morel , Andrea Miglio