AMR simulations of the low T/W bar-mode instability of neutron stars

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2007.04.001zbMATH Open1196.85006arXiv0704.0356OpenAlexW2083742555WikidataQ60735652 ScholiaQ60735652MaRDI QIDQ710184FDOQ710184

Pablo Cerdá-Durán, Vicent Quilis, José A. Font

Publication date: 18 October 2010

Published in: Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It has been recently argued through numerical work that rotating stars with a high degree of differential rotation are dynamically unstable against bar-mode deformation, even for values of the ratio of rotational kinetic energy to gravitational potential energy as low as O(0.01). This may have implications for gravitational wave astronomy in high-frequency sources such as core collapse supernovae. In this paper we present high-resolution simulations, performed with an adaptive mesh refinement hydrodynamics code, of such low T/|W| bar-mode instability. The complex morphological features involved in the nonlinear dynamics of the instability are revealed in our simulations, which show that the excitation of Kelvin-Helmholtz-like fluid modes outside the corotation radius of the star leads to the saturation of the bar-mode deformation. While the overall trends reported in an earlier investigation are confirmed by our work, we also find that numerical resolution plays an important role during the long-term, nonlinear behaviour of the instability, which has implications on the dynamics of rotating stars and on the attainable amplitudes of the associated gravitational wave signals.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0356

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zbMATH Keywords

hydrodynamicsgravitational wavesinstabilitiesstars: neutron stars: rotation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Computational methods for problems pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-08)

Cites Work

• Local adaptive mesh refinement for shock hydrodynamics
• Rotating stars in relativity

Cited In (2)

• Dynamical non-axisymmetric instabilities in rotating relativistic stars
• Gravitational waves from gravitational collapse

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