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孤立中子星的自旋降:引力波还是磁制动?

Spindown of Isolated Neutron Stars: Gravitational Waves or Magnetic Braking?

Jan Staff, Prashanth Jaikumar, Vincent Chan, Rachid Ouyed

摘要:

我们研究了孤立中子星在两个因素驱动下的自旋降速:(i)由于r-模的引力波发射和(ii)磁制动。在孤立中子星的背景下,我们提出的第一个研究包括自洽的自旋演化的r-模式的磁阻尼。我们跟踪自旋演化采用RNS代码,它占旋转结构的中子星的各种状态方程。我们发现,尽管由于磁场的强阻尼,r模式改变制动率从纯磁制动B<10^{13}G。对于饱和振幅的实际值,r-模式也可以减少达到夸克解除禁闭的阈值中心密度的时间。在一个唯象模型中,我们评估了磁化中子星的r模驱动自旋下降所产生的引力波形。为了与自旋下降阶段的持续信号形成对比,我们还对夸克-强子相变产生的瞬态引力波信号进行了初步估计,它可能是中子星内部夸克解除禁闭的信号。

英文摘要:

We study the spindown of isolated neutron stars from initially rapid rotation rates, driven by two factors: (i) gravitational wave emission due to r-modes and (ii) magnetic braking. In the context of isolated neutron stars, we present the first study including self-consistently the magnetic damping of r-modes in the spin evolution. We track the spin evolution employing the RNS code, which accounts for the rotating structure of neutron stars for various equations of state. We find that, despite the strong damping due to the magnetic field, r-modes alter the braking rate from pure magnetic braking for B<10^{13}G. For realistic values of the saturation amplitude, the r-mode can also decrease the time to reach the threshold central density for quark deconfinement. Within a phenomenological model, we assess the gravitational waveform that would result from r-mode driven spindown of a magnetized neutron star. To contrast with the persistent signal during the spindown phase, we also present a preliminary estimate of the transient gravitational wave signal from an explosive quark-hadron phase transition, which can be a signal for the deconfinement of quarks inside neutron stars.

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