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This article provides an overview of stellar instabilities as sources of gravitational waves. The aim is to put recent work on secular and dynamical instabilities in compact stars in context, and to summarize the current thinking about the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 N. Andersson

In this article, I introduce ideas and techniques to extract information about the equation of state of matter at very high densities from gravitational waves emitted before, during and after the merger of binary neutron stars. I also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-30 Luca Baiotti

We identify a new dynamical mechanism for a strong scalar gravitational field effect. To illustrate this mechanism, we investigate the parametric excitation and emission of scalar gravitational waves by a radially pulsating model neutron…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-04 Charles H. -T. Wang , Paolo M. Bonifacio , Robert Bingham , J. Tito Mendonca

Isolated neutron stars undergoing non-radial oscillations are expected to emit gravitational waves in the kilohertz frequency range. To date, radio astronomers have located about 1,300 pulsars, and can estimate that there are about 2 times…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 G. L. Comer

Causes of the unsatisfactory condition of the gravitational-wave experiments are discussed and a new outlook at the detection of gravitational waves of astrophysical origin is proposed. It is shown that there are strong grounds for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Yu. G. Ignatyev

Gravitational waves from oscillating neutron stars in axial symmetry are studied performing numerical simulations in full general relativity. Neutron stars are modeled by a polytropic equation of state for simplicity. A gauge-invariant wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masaru Shibata , Yuichirou Sekiguchi

We review sources of high-frequency gravitational waves, summarizing our current understanding of emission mechanisms, expected amplitudes and event rates. The most promising sources are gravitational collapse (formation of black holes or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Kostas D. Kokkotas , Nikolaos Stergioulas

We present a simplified description of a rotating neutron star emitting gravitational waves. We describe the system by an uniformly rotating triaxial homogeneous ellipsoid to catch the main aspects of the evolution. We construct an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-13 Ana Maria Endler , Sérgio Barbosa Duarte , Hilário Rodrigues , Marcelo Chiapparini

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Spontaneous symmetry breaking 2.1 Review of classical results about Maclaurin/Jacobi ellipsoids 2.2 Spontaneous breaking of symmetry: a general phenomenom 2.3 Previous results for compressible Newtonian stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Bonazzola , E. Gourgoulhon

The background of gravitational waves produced by the ensemble of rotating neutron stars (which includes pulsars, magnetars and gravitars) is investigated. A formula for \Omega(f) (commonly used to quantify the background) is derived,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-07 Pablo A. Rosado

We investigate the generation of gravitational waves from the rotation of an orthogonal pulsar magnetosphere in flat space time. We calculate the first order metric perturbation due to the rotation of the non-axisymmetric distribution of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-20 Ioannis Contopoulos , Demosthenes Kazanas , Demetrios B. Papadopoulos

Neutron stars such as pulsars and magnetars lose angular momentum primarily through electromagnetic dipole radiation, gravitational waves, $r$-mode oscillation, and also affected by fallback accretion processes. However, anomalous spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-29 Indra Kumar Banerjee , Sandeep Chatterjee , Biswarup Das , Ujjal Kumar Dey

In this review we examine the dynamics and gravitational wave detectability of rotating strained neutron stars. The discussion is divided into two halves: triaxial stars, and precessing stars. We summarise recent work on how crustal strains…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 D. I. Jones

Neutron stars emitting continuous gravitational waves may be regarded as gravitational pulsars, in the sense that it could be possible to track the evolution of their rotational period with long-baseline observations of next-generation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 Marco Antonelli , Avishek Basu , Brynmor Haskell

According to the strange quark matter hypothesis, pulsars may actually be strange stars composed of self-bound strange quark matter. The normal matter crust of a strange star, unlike that of a normal neutron star, is supported by a strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-29 Ze-Cheng Zou , Yong-Feng Huang , Xiao-Li Zhang

Spinning neutron stars, when observed as pulsars, are seen to undergo occasional spin-up events known as glitches. Despite several decades of study, the physical mechanisms responsible for glitches are still not well understood, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-09 Brynmor Haskell , David Ian Jones

According to the theoretical study, a deformation object (e.g., a spinning non-axisymmetric pulsar star) will radiate a gravitational wave (GW) signal during an accelaration motion process by LIGO science project. These types of disturbance…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-17 Jinzhong Liu , Yu Zhang

The global network of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors (the Advanced LIGO and the Advanced Virgo) is sensitive at the frequency range corresponding to relativistic stellar-mass compact objects. Among the promising types of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-05 Michał Bejger

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 extragalactic background of gravitational waves produced by tri-axial rotating neutron stars was calculated, under the assumption that the properties of the underlying pulsar population are the same of those of the galactic population,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 T. Regimbau , J. A. de Freitas Pacheco