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In this work we study the r-mode instability windows and the gravitational wave signatures of neutron stars in the slow rotation approximation using the equation of state obtained from the density dependent M3Y effective interaction. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-06-20 Somnath Mukhopadhyay , Joydev Lahiri , Debasis Atta , Kouser Imam , D. N. Basu

Motivated by their gravitational-wave driven instability, we investigate the influence of the crust on r-mode oscillations in a neutron star. Using a simplistic model of an elastic neutron star crust with constant shear modulus, we carry…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Glampedakis , N. Andersson

We derive the transport relaxation times for quasiparticle-vortex scattering processes via nuclear force, relevant for the damping of differential rotation of superfluids in the quantum liquid core of a neutron star. The proton scattering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-06 Armen Sedrakian

Mature neutron stars are expected to contain various kinds of superfluids in their interiors. Modeling such stars requires the knowledge of the mutual entrainment couplings between the different condensates. We present a unified equation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 N. Chamel , J. M. Pearson , S. Goriely

We consider how superfluidity of dripped neutrons in the crust of a neutron star affects the frequencies of the crust's fundamental torsional oscillations. A nonnegligible superfluid part of dripped neutrons, which do not comove with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Hajime Sotani , Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Kei Iida , Kazuhiro Oyamatsu

We consider both mode calculations and time evolutions of axial r-modes for relativistic uniformly rotating non-barotropic neutron stars, using the slow-rotation formalism, in which rotational corrections are considered up to linear order…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Johannes Ruoff , Kostas D. Kokkotas

I review some of the ideas that have been proposed for the structure of neutron star interiors, and concentrate on the theoretical arguments for the existence of superfluidity in neutron stars. I also discuss the implications of neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-27 J. A. Sauls

The rod phase as it is expected in the bottom layers of neutron-star crusts is analyzed within the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov framework. In order to well describe the interplay between band structure and superfluidity, periodicity of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-18 Giorgio Almirante , Michael Urban

Transitions of nuclear compositions in the crust of a neutron star induced by stellar spin-down are evaluated at zero temperature. We construct a compressible liquid-drop model for the energy of nuclei immersed in a neutron gas, including…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Kei Iida , Katsuhiko Sato

This review focuses on applications of the ideas of superfluidity and superconductivity in neutron stars in a broader context, ranging from the microphysics of pairing in nucleonic superfluids to macroscopic manifestations of superfluidity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-06 Brynmor Haskell , Armen Sedrakian

I study the effect of nuclear equation of state on the r-mode instability of a rotating neutron star. I consider the case where the crust of the neutron star is perfectly rigid and I employ the related theory introduced by Lindblom {\it et…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-18 Ch. C. Moustakidis

In a second-order r-mode theory, S'a & Tom'e found that the r-mode oscillation in neutron stars (NSs) could induce stellar differential rotation, which leads to a saturation state of the oscillation spontaneously. Based on a consideration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Yun-Wei Yu , Xiao-Feng Cao , Xiao-Ping Zheng

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

We investigate the damping of neutron star r-modes due to the presence of a viscous boundary (Ekman) layer at the interface between the crust and the core. Our study is motivated by the possibility that the gravitational-wave driven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kostas Glampedakis , Nils Andersson

Despite the absence of viscous drag, the neutron superfluid permeating the inner crust of a neutron star can still be strongly coupled to nuclei due to non-dissipative entrainment effects. Neutron superfluidity and entrainment have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-02 N. Chamel , J. M. Pearson , S. Goriely

In a previous paper [M. E. Gusakov, A. I. Chugunov, and E. M. Kantor, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 151101 (2014)], we introduced a new scenario that explains the existence of rapidly rotating warm neutron stars (NSs) observed in low-mass X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Mikhail E. Gusakov , Andrey I. Chugunov , Elena M. Kantor

Recent ROSAT measurements show that the x-ray emission from isolated neutron stars is modulated at the stellar rotation period. To interpret these measurements, one needs precise calculations of the heat transfer through the thin insulating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jeremy S. Heyl , Lars Hernquist

An analysis of the slab phase as it is expected in the innermost layer of neutron-star crusts is performed within the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov framework. We take the periodicity of the slabs into account using Bloch boundary conditions, in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-12 Giorgio Almirante , Michael Urban

We study the cooling of superfluid neutron stars whose cores consist of nucleon matter with the Akmal-Pandharipande-Ravenhall equation of state. This equation of state opens the powerful direct Urca process of neutrino emission in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 M. E. Gusakov , A. D. Kaminker , D. G. Yakovlev , O. Y. Gnedin

It is shown how to set up a mathematically elegant and fully relativistic superfluid model that can provide a realistic approximation (neglecting small anisotropies due to crust solidity, magnetic fields, et cetera, but allowing for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 David Langlois , David M. Sedrakian , Brandon Carter