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We discuss the possibility that future gravitational-wave detectors may be able to detect various modes of oscillation of old, cold neutron stars. We argue that such detections would provide unique insights into the superfluid nature of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Andersson , G. L. Comer

Using a metric perturbation method, we study gravitational waves from a test particle scattered by a spherically symmetric relativistic star. We calculate the energy spectrum and the waveform of gravitational waves for axial modes. Since…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kazuhiro Tominaga , Motoyuki Saijo , Kei-ichi Maeda

The recent LIGO-Virgo detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral event GW170817 and the discovery of its accompanying electromagnetic signals mark a new era for multimessenger astronomy. In the coming years,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 Xing-Jiang Zhu , Eric Thrane , Stefan Osłowski , Yuri Levin , Paul D. Lasky

Gravitational waves from isolated sources have eluded detection so far. The upper limit of long-lasting continuous gravitational wave emission can now probe physically-motivated models with the most optimistic being strongly constrained.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-19 Garvin Yim , Yong Gao , Yacheng Kang , Lijing Shao , Renxin Xu

The stability of the spin of pulsars and the precision with which these spins can be determined, allows many unique tests of interest to physics and astrophysics. Perhaps the most challenging and revolutionary of these, is the detection of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-07 Joris P. W. Verbiest , Sarah J. Vigeland , Nataliya K. Porayko , Siyuan Chen , Daniel J. Reardon

Glitches in the rotational frequency of a spinning neutron star could be promising sources of gravitational wave signals lasting between a few microseconds to a few weeks. The emitted signals and their properties depend upon the internal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-11 Avneet Singh

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

As gravitational wave instrumentation becomes more sensitive, it is interesting to speculate about subtle effects that could be analyzed using upcoming generations of detectors. One such effect that has great potential for revealing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 Cecilia Chirenti , Roman Gold , M. Coleman Miller

Unlike general relativity, the scalar gravitational waves can be excited due to the radial oscillations in scalar-tensor gravity. To examine the scalar gravitational waves in scalar-tensor gravity, we derive the evolution equations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Hajime Sotani

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

Recently, the possibility has emerged of an early detection of astrophysical gravity waves. In certain astronomical configurations, and through a new light-deflection effect, gravity waves can cause apparent shifts in stellar angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Redouane Fakir

Sun-like stellar oscillations are excited by turbulent convection and have been discovered in some 500 main sequence and sub-giant stars and in more than 12,000 red giant stars. When such stars are near gravitational wave sources, low-order…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-14 Ilídio Lopes , Joseph Silk

We present a robust method to characterize the gravitational wave emission from the remnant of a neutron star coalescence. Our approach makes only minimal assumptions about the morphology of the signal and provides a full posterior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-03 Katerina Chatziioannou , James Alexander Clark , Andreas Bauswein , Margaret Millhouse , Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil Cornish

The standing wave nodes of nonradial oscillations on a neutron star crust will drift with a definite angle velocity around rotational pole due to the rotation of neutron stars. This is called the nonradial oscillation node precession of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Haochen Li

The spin-down limit of the continuous gravitational wave strain from pulsars assumed to be triaxial stars rotating about a principal moment of inertia axis depends upon the value of the intrinsic spin frequency derivative of the pulsar,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-01 Dhruv Pathak , Debarati Chatterjee

The rotation frequencies of young pulsars are systematically below their theoretical Kepler limit. R-modes have been suggested as a possible explanation for this observation. With the help of semi-analytic expressions that make it possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-25 Mark G. Alford , Kai Schwenzer

This article starts by providing an introductory overview of the theoretical mechanics of rotating neutron stars as developped to account for the frequency variations, and particularly the discontinuous glitches, observed in pulsars. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Brandon Carter

In the past decades, several neutron stars (NSs), particularly pulsars, with mass $M>2M_\odot$ have been observed. On the other hand, the existence of massive white dwarfs (WDs), even violating Chandrasekhar mass-limit, was inferred from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-10 Mayusree Das , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

In this Letter we re-examine the idea that gravitational waves are required as a braking mechanism to explain the observed maximum spin-frequency of neutron stars. We show that for millisecond X-ray pulsars, the existence of spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Alessandro Patruno , Brynmor Haskell , Caroline D'Angelo

Despite their long history and astrophysical importance, some of the key properties of neutron stars are still uncertain. The extreme conditions encountered in their interiors, involving matter of uncertain composition at extreme density…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-13 Katerina Chatziioannou