On the shear instability in relativistic neutron stars

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/11/114104MaRDI QIDQ3575119zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Giovanni Corvino, Luciano Rezzolla, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Bruno Giacomazzo, Roberto De Pietri

Publication date 7 July 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.5281

zbMATH Keywords

canonical formalismCauchy problems)Einstein's equations (general structuregalactic and stellar dynamicsgravitational waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational waves (83C35) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Computational methods for problems pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-08) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

Abstract: We present new results on instabilities in rapidly and differentially rotating neutron stars. We model the stars in full general relativity and describe the stellar matter adopting a cold realistic equation of state based on the unified SLy prescription. We provide evidence that rapidly and differentially rotating stars that are below the expected threshold for the dynamical bar-mode instability, beta_c = T/|W| ~ 0.25, do nevertheless develop a shear instability on a dynamical timescale and for a wide range of values of beta. This class of instability, which has so far been found only for small values of beta and with very small growth rates, is therefore more generic than previously found and potentially more effective in producing strong sources of gravitational waves. Overall, our findings support the phenomenological predictions made by Watts, Andersson and Jones on the nature of the low-T/|W|.

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