Gravitational radiation from pulsar glitches

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/25/22/225020MaRDI QIDQ3544869zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cornelis A. van Eysden, Andrew Melatos

Publication date 8 December 2008

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.4352

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational waves (83C35) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

Abstract: 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 hydrodynamic mass quadrupole moment approaches the sensitivity range of advanced long-baseline interferometers. It is shown that the viscosity, compressibility, and orientation of the star can be inferred in principle from the width and amplitude ratios of the Fourier peaks (at the spin frequency and its first harmonic) observed in the gravitational wave spectrum in the plus and cross polarizations. These transport coefficients constrain the equation of state of bulk nuclear matter, because they depend sensitively on the degree of superfluidity.

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