Dynamical non-axisymmetric instabilities in rotating relativistic stars

dc.creatorManca, G. M.
dc.creatorBaiotti, L.
dc.creatorDe Pietri, R.
dc.creatorRezzolla, L.
dc.date2007-05-13
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dc.descriptionWe present new results on dynamical instabilities in rapidly rotating neutron-stars. In particular, using numerical simulations in full General Relativity, we analyse the effects that the stellar compactness has on the threshold for the onset of the dynamical bar-mode instability, as well as on the appearance of other dynamical instabilities. By using an extrapolation technique developed and tested in our previous study [1], we explicitly determine the threshold for a wide range of compactnesses using four sequences of models of constant baryonic mass comprising a total of 59 stellar models. Our calculation of the threshold is in good agreement with the Newtonian prediction and improves the previous post-Newtonian estimates. In addition, we find that for stars with sufficiently large mass and compactness, the m=3 deformation is the fastest growing one. For all of the models considered, the non-axisymmetric instability is suppressed on a dynamical timescale with an m=1 deformation dominating the final stages of the instability. These results, together with those presented in [1], suggest that an m=1 deformation represents a general and late-time feature of non-axisymmetric dynamical instabilities both in full General Relativity and in Newtonian gravity.
dc.descriptionTo appear on CQG, NFNR special issue. 16 pages, 5 color figures, movies from http://www.fis.unipr.it/numrel/BarMode/ResearchBarMode.html
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0705.1826
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0705.1826
dc.identifierClass.Quant.Grav.24:S171-S186,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/0264-9381/24/12/S12
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/186107
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleDynamical non-axisymmetric instabilities in rotating relativistic stars
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