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Nonaxisymmetric, meridional circulation inside a neutron star, excited by a glitch and persisting throughout the post-glitch relaxation phase, emits gravitational radiation. Here, it is shown that the current quadrupole contributes more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. F. Bennett , C. A. van Eysden , A. Melatos

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

Oscillating neutron stars are sources of continuous gravitational waves. We study analytically the excitation of stellar oscillations by the mechanical impact on the stellar surface of ''clumps'' of stochastically accreted matter. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-19 Wenhao Dong , Andrew Melatos

The gravitational-wave spectrum emitted by a non-axisymmetric torus rotating at an angular velocity $\Omega_T$, is derived in terms of a structure function representing a combination of sausage-tilt modes in the torus in the limit of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Omer Bromberg , Amir Levinson , Maurice van Putten

We present the first calculations of the gravitational radiation produced by nonaxisymmetric dynamical instability in a rapidly rotating compact star. The star deforms into a bar shape, shedding $\sim 4\%$ of its mass and $\sim 17\%$ of its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-23 J. L. Houser , J. M. Centrella , S. C. Smith

We present the first calculation of gravitational wave emission produced in the gravitational collapse of uniformly rotating neutron stars to black holes in fully three-dimensional simulations. The initial stellar models are relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Baiotti , I. Hawke , L. Rezzolla , E. Schnetter

We study the secular evolution and gravitational wave signature of a newly-formed, rapidly rotating neutron star. The neutron star may arise from core collapse in a massive star or from the accretion-induced collapse of a white dwarf. After…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Dong Lai , Stu Shapiro

Hydrodynamic turbulence driven by crust-core differential rotation imposes a fundamental noise floor on gravitational wave observations of neutron stars. The gravitational wave emission peaks at the Kolmogorov decoherence frequency which,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Paul D. Lasky , Mark F. Bennett , Andrew Melatos

The nonaxisymmetric Ekman flow excited inside a neutron star following a rotational glitch is calculated analytically including stratification and compressibility. For the largest glitches, the gravitational wave strain produced by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-15 C. A. van Eysden , A. Melatos

(Abridged.) The mean-square current quadrupole moment associated with vorticity fluctuations in high-Reynolds-number turbulence in a differentially rotating neutron star is calculated analytically, as are the amplitude and decoherence time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 A. Melatos , C. Peralta

Non radial oscillations of neutron stars are associated with the emission of gravitational waves. The characteristic frequencies of these oscillations can be computed using the theory of stellar perturbations, and they are shown to carry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-10 Valeria Ferrari

We study the gravitational radiation associated to the non--radial oscillations of newly born, hot neutron stars. The frequencies and damping times of the relevant quasi--normal modes are computed for two different models of proto--neutron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-02 Valeria Ferrari , Giovanni Miniutti , Jose' A. Pons

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

We compare different gravitational-wave extraction methods used in three-dimensional nonlinear simulations against linear simulations of perturbations of spherical spacetimes with matter. We present results from fully general-relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Luca Baiotti , Giovanni Corvino , Roberto De Pietri , Alessandro Nagar

Gravitational radiation drives an instability in the r-modes of young rapidly rotating neutron stars. This instability is expected to carry away most of the angular momentum of the star by gravitational radiation emission, leaving a star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Benjamin J. Owen , Lee Lindblom , Curt Cutler , Bernard F. Schutz , Alberto Vecchio , Nils Andersson

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 study gravitational waves from a spinning test particle scattered by a relativistic star using a perturbation method. The present analysis is restricted to axial modes. By calculating the energy spectrum, the waveforms and the total…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Kazuhiro Tominaga , Motoyuki Saijo , Kei-ichi Maeda

This paper presents an estimate for the spectral properties of the stochastic background of gravitational waves emitted by a population of hot, young, rapidly rotating neutron stars throughout the Universe undergoing $f$-mode instabilities,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Marco Surace , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Pantelis Pnigouras

We carry out 3-D numerical simulations of the dynamical instability in rapidly rotating stars initially modeled as polytropes with n = 1.5, 1.0, and 0.5. The calculations are done with a SPH code using Newtonian gravity, and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Janet L. Houser , Joan M. Centrella

We discuss an astrometric timing effect on data analysis of continuous gravitational waves from rapidly rotating isolated neutron stars. Special attention is directed to the possibility of determining their distances by measuring the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Naoki Seto
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