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Binary neutron star mergers, such as the multimessenger GW170817 event, may produce hypermassive compact objects which are supported against collapse by the internal circulation of the fluid within the star. We compute their unstable modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-03 Peter B. Rau , Armen Sedrakian

The stability properties of rotating relativistic stars against prompt gravitational collapse to a black hole are rather well understood for uniformly rotating models. This is not the case for differentially rotating neutron stars, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-12 Lukas R. Weih , Elias R. Most , Luciano Rezzolla

We compute zero-frequency (neutral) quasi-normal f-modes of fully relativistic and rapidly rotating neutron stars, using several realistic equations of state (EOSs) for neutron star matter. The zero-frequency modes signal the onset of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Sharon M. Morsink , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Steve R. Blattnig

The spin rate \Omega of neutron stars at a given temperature T is constrained by the interplay between gravitational-radiation instabilities and viscous damping. Navier-Stokes theory has been used to calculate the viscous damping timescales…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Vahid Rezania , Roy Maartens

In this work we study rapidly rotating stars by considering the Rastall theory of gravity. We obtain and solve the equations by numerical methods for two usual parametrization of polytropic stars. Then the mass-radius relations, moments of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-05 F. M. da Silva , L. C. N. Santos , C. C. Barros

In the present work, we explore the Rossby mode instabilities in neutron stars as sources of gravitational waves. The intensity and time evolution of the emitted gravitational waves in terms of the amplitude of the strain tensor are…

Growth rates for gravitational instabilities in a thick disk of gas and stars are determined for a turbulent gas that dissipates on the local crossing time. The scale heights are derived from vertical equilibrium. The accuracy of the usual…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Bruce G. Elmegreen

Gravitational instability is one of considerable mechanisms to explain the formation of giant planets. We study the gravitational stability for the protoplanetary disks around a protostar. The temperature and Toomre's Q-value are calculated…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Shigeo S. Kimura , Toru Tsuribe

The early post-merger phase of a binary neutron-star coalescence is shaped by characteristic rotational velocities as well as violent density oscillations and offers the possibility to constrain the properties of neutron star matter by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-10 Michail Chabanov , Luciano Rezzolla

We have modelled the nonlinear development of the secular bar-mode instability that is driven by gravitational radiation-reaction (GRR) forces in rotating neutron stars. In the absence of any competing viscous effects, an initially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shangli Ou , Joel E. Tohline , Lee Lindblom

When rotation is not taken into account, the measurement of the Gravitational Redshift can provide unique information about the compactness ($M/R$) of the star. Rotation alters the gravitational redshift rendering thereby a unique…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-10 Paul Nunez , Marek Nowakowski

A linear analysis of baroclinic instability in a stellar radiation zone with radial differential rotation is performed. The instability onsets at a very small rotation inhomogeneity. There are two families of unstable disturbances…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 L. L. Kitchatinov

Rapidly rotating white dwarfs in cataclysmic variable systems may be emitting gravitational radiation due to the recently discovered relativistic r-mode instability. Assuming that the four most rapidly rotating known systems are limited in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 William A. Hiscock

We study tidal dissipation in stars with masses in the range $0.1-1.6 M_\odot$ throughout their evolution, including turbulent effective viscosity acting on equilibrium tides and inertial waves in convection zones, and internal gravity…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-09 Adrian J. Barker

Using the nuclear equation of states for a large variety of relativistic and non-relativistic force parameters, we calculate the static and rotating masses and radii of neutron stars. From these equation of states, we also evaluate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-23 Shailesh K. Singh , S. K. Biswal , M. Bhuyan , T. K. Jha , S. K. Patra

A rapidly rotating, axisymmetric star can be dynamically unstable to an m=2 "bar" mode that transforms the star from a disk shape to an elongated bar. The fate of such a bar-shaped star is uncertain. Some previous numerical studies indicate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 David Brown

Gravitational instabilities play an important role in galaxy evolution and in shaping the interstellar medium (ISM). The ISM is observed to be highly turbulent, meaning that observables like the gas surface density and velocity dispersion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Oscar Agertz , Alessandro B. Romeo , Kearn Grisdale

We consider the slowly rotating relativistic stars with a uniform angular velocity in the scalar-tensor gravity, and examine the rotational effect around such compact objects. For this purpose, we derive a 2nd order differential equation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Hajime Sotani

The gas-stars instability criterion for infinitesimally thin disc was applied to the galaxy NGC 628. Instead of using the azimuthally averaged profiles of data the maps of the gas surface densities (THINGS, HERACLES), of the velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-24 A. A. Marchuk

In the present paper we investigate self-consistently slowly rotating neutron and strange stars in R-squared gravity. For this purpose we first derive the equations describing the structure of the slowly rotating compact stars in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Kalin V. Staykov , Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Kostas D. Kokkotas
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