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``Mountains'', or non-axisymmetrical deformations in the elastic crust of rotating neutron stars are efficient radiators of continuous gravitational waves. Recently, small anisotropies were observed in the solid innermost inner core of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-24 J. A. Morales , C. J. Horowitz

Mountains on rapidly rotating neutron stars efficiently radiate gravitational waves. The maximum possible size of these mountains depends on the breaking strain of neutron star crust. With multi-million ion molecular dynamics simulations of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-30 C. J. Horowitz , Kai Kadau

Non-axisymmetrical deformations of the crust on rapidly rotating neutron stars are one of the main targets of searches for continuous gravitational waves. The maximum ellipticity, or fractional difference in moments of inertia, that can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-17 J. A. Morales , C. J. Horowitz

The spin-distribution of accreting neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) systems shows a concentration of pulsars well below the Keplarian break-up limit. It has been suggested that their spin frequencies may be limited by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-12 T. J. Hutchins , D. I. Jones

Neutron stars (NSs) are incredibly versatile for studying various important aspects of high-energy and compact-object physics. These celestial objects contain extreme matter at incredibly high densities in their interiors, leading to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-31 S. R. Mohanty , Sayantan Ghosh , Bharat Kumar

In this paper, we study the impact of anisotropy on neutron stars with different equations of state, which have been modeled by a piecewise polytropic function with continuous sound speed. Anisotropic pressure in neutron stars is often…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-22 L. M. Becerra , E. A. Becerra-Vergara , F. D. Lora-Clavijo

Accreting neutron stars are one of the main targets for continuous gravitational wave searches, as asymmetric accretion may lead to quadrupolar deformations, or `mountains', on the crust of the star, which source gravitational wave emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-07 Neha Singh , Brynmor Haskell , Dipanjan Mukherjee , Tomasz Bulik

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

We investigate how gravitational wave (GW) observations can probe the internal physics of neutron stars by extending the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff framework to include pressure anisotropy and internal magnetic fields. Two representative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-04 Zhao-Wei Du , Xi-Long Fan

Gravitational, magnetic and superfluid forces can stress the crust of an evolving neutron star. Fracture of the crust under these stresses could affect the star's spin evolution and generate high-energy emission. We study the growth of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Lucia M. Franco , Bennett Link , Richard I. Epstein

Some models (such as the Skyrme model, a low-energy effective field theory for QCD) suggest that the high-density matter prevailing in neutron star interiors may be significantly anisotropic. Anisotropy is known to affect the bulk…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Hector O. Silva , Caio F. B. Macedo , Emanuele Berti , Luís C. B. Crispino

With the remarkable advent of gravitational-wave astronomy, we have shed light on previously shrouded events: compact binary coalescences. Neutron stars are promising (and confirmed) sources of gravitational radiation and it proves timely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-20 Fabian Gittins

The anisotropy of pressure arises due to the various complex phenomena that happen inside the neutron star (NS). In this study, we calculate the degree of anisotropy inside the NS using the scalar pressure anisotropy model. Macroscopic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-06 H. C. Das , Jeet Amrit Pattnaik , S. K. Patra

Rotating neutron stars that support long-lived, non-axisymmetric deformations known as mountains have long been considered potential sources of gravitational radiation. However, the amplitude from such a source is very weak and current…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-16 Fabian Gittins

The neutron star maximum mass and the radius are investigated within the framework of the relativistic mean-field (RMF) model. The variation in the radius at the canonical mass, $R_{1.4}$, using different inner crust equation of state (EoS)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-03-19 Ishfaq Ahmad Rather , Anisul Ain Usmani , Suresh Kumar Patra

Neutron stars exhibit magnetic fields and densities far beyond those achievable in terrestrial laboratories, offering a natural probe of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions. Using observationally anchored mass-radius…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Abriana Lyda , Prajwal MohanMurthy

We investigate the properties of anisotropic, spherically symmetric compact stars, especially neutron stars and strange quark stars, made of strongly magnetized matter. The neutron stars are described by SLy equation of state, the strange…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Debabrata Deb , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay , Fridolin Weber

Neutron stars are not observed to spin faster than about half their breakup rate. This limiting rotational frequency may be related to the strength of their crusts. As a star spins up from accretion, centrifugal forces stress the crust. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-17 J. A. Morales , C. J. Horowitz

Cold and dense matter may break rotational symmetry spontaneously and thus form an anisotropic phase in the interior of neutron stars. We consider the concrete example of an anisotropic chiral condensate in the form of a chiral density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-22 Orestis Papadopoulos , Andreas Schmitt

Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars and are the outcome of the collapse of the core of a massive star with a mass of the order of or larger than eight solar masses. This process releases a huge gravitational energy of about 10^{53}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-27 M. Barkovich , J. C. D'Olivo , R. Montemayor
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