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Mature neutron stars are expected exhibit gravity g-modes due to stratification caused by varying composition. These modes are affected by nuclear reactions, leading to complex (damped) mode frequencies and the suppression of high order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-16 A. R. Counsell , F. Gittins , N. Andersson

A phase transition occurring in the inner core of a neutron star could be associated to a density discontinuity that would affect the frequency spectrum of the non-radial oscillation modes in two ways. Firstly, it would produce a softening…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Miniutti , J. A. Pons , E. Berti , L. Gualtieri , V. Ferrari

A common alternative to the standard assumption of nucleonic composition of matter in the interior of a neutron star is to include strange baryons, particularly hyperons. Any change in composition of the neutron star core has an effect on…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Vinh Tran , Suprovo Ghosh , Nicholas Lozano , Debarati Chatterjee , Prashanth Jaikumar

In this work we investigate the influence of neutron stars' crusts on the non-radial $g$-mode oscillations and examine their correlations with nuclear matter properties fixed by adopting 10 different relativistic density functionals. At…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-13 Hao Sun , Jia-Xing Niu , Hong-Bo Li , Cheng-Jun Xia , Enping Zhou , Yiqiu Ma , Ying-Xun Zhang

We calculate quasi-normal f- and g-modes of a neutron star with density discontinuity, which may appear in a phase transition at extreme high density. We find that discontinuity will reflect largely on the f-mode, and that the g-mode could…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Hajime Sotani , Kazuhiro Tominaga , Kei-ichi Maeda

The oscillation spectrum of a neutron star is notably rich and intrinsically dependent on the equation of state of nuclear matter. With recent advancements in gravitational-wave and electromagnetic astronomy, we are nearing the capability…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-06 Fabian Gittins , Nils Andersson

We use time-evolutions of the linear perturbation equations to study the oscillations of rapidly rotating neutrons stars. Our models account for the buoyancy due to composition gradients and we study, for the first time, the nature of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Passamonti , B. Haskell , N. Andersson , D. I. Jones , I. Hawke

Neutron stars provide a unique physical laboratory to study the properties of matter at high density. We study a diagnostic of the composition of high-density matter, namely, g-mode oscillations, which are driven by buoyancy forces. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-28 Nicholas Lozano , Vinh Tran , Prashanth Jaikumar

We study the effect of temperature on secular, compositional $g$-modes in the core of inviscid neutron stars. Using a chiral $SU(2)_f$ sigma model, we construct isentropic temperature profiles for hot and dense matter and find that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-17 David Morales-Zapien , Prashanth Jaikumar , Thomas Klähn

The equation of state (EOS) of nuclear dense matter plays a crucial role in many astrophysical phenomena associated with neutron stars (NSs). Fluid oscillations are one of the most fundamental properties therein. NSs support a family of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Hong-Bo Li , Yong Gao , Lijing Shao , Renxin Xu

Mature neutron stars are expected to exhibit gravity g-modes due to stratification caused by a varying matter composition in the high-density core. By employing the BSk equation of state family, and working within the relativistic Cowling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-06 Rhys Counsell , Fabian Gittins , Nils Andersson , Pantelis Pnigouras

As the densities in the interior of neutron stars exceed those of terrestrial nuclear experiments, they provide a scope for studying the nature of dense matter under extreme conditions. The composition of the inner core of neutron stars is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-07 Bikram Keshari Pradhan , Debarati Chatterjee

Quasi-normal oscillation modes of neutron stars provide a means to probe their interior composition using gravitational wave astronomy. We compute the frequencies and damping times of composition-dependent core g-modes of neutron stars…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Tianqi Zhao , Constantinos Constantinou , Prashanth Jaikumar , Madappa Prakash

Among the various oscillation modes of neutron stars, f- and g- modes are the most likely to be ultimately observed in binary neutron star mergers. The f-mode is known to correlate in normal neutron stars with their tidal deformability,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Tianqi Zhao , James M. Lattimer

Neutron stars are expected to contain a significant number of hyperons in addition to protons and neutrons in the highest density portions of their cores. Following the work of Jones, we calculate the coefficient of bulk viscosity due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lee Lindblom , Benjamin J. Owen

We study the dynamical evolution of a large amplitude r-mode by numerical simulations. R-modes in neutron stars are unstable growing modes, driven by gravitational radiation reaction. In these simulations, r-modes of amplitude unity or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Philip Gressman , Lap-Ming Lin , Wai-Mo Suen , N. Stergioulas , John L. Friedman

We investigate $g$-mode oscillations in dark matter admixed neutron stars employing a relativistic mean field model to describe hadronic matter and a model for self-interacting fermionic dark matter motivated by the neutron decay anomaly.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-03 Swarnim Shirke , Debarati Chatterjee , Prashanth Jaikumar

We investigate the impact of chemical equilibration and the resulting bulk viscosity on non-radial oscillation modes of warm neutron stars at temperatures up to $T\approx 5$ MeV, relevant for protoneutron stars and neutron-star post-merger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-03 Tianqi Zhao , Peter B. Rau , Alexander Haber , Steven P. Harris , Constantinos Constantinou , Sophia Han

The problem of the gravitational radiation damping of neutron star fundamental ($f$) mode oscillations has received considerable attention. Many studies have looked at the stability of such oscillations in rapidly rotating stars,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-07 Garvin Yim , D. I. Jones

We investigate the radial stability of neutron stars under conditions where their composition may or may not remain in chemical equilibrium during oscillations. Using different equations of state that include nucleons, hyperons, and/or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-31 Martin O. Canullan-Pascual , German Lugones , Milva G. Orsaria , Ignacio F. Ranea-Sandoval
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