Crust-core coupling and r-mode damping in neutron stars: a toy model
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Crust-core coupling and r-mode damping in neutron stars: a toy model
R-modes in neutron stars with crusts are damped by viscous friction at the crust-core boundary. The magnitude of this damping, evaluated by Bildsten and Ushomirsky (BU) under the assumption of a perfectly rigid crust, sets the maximum spin frequency for a neutron star spun up by accretion in a Low-Mass X-ray binary (LMXB). In this paper we explore the mechanical coupling between the core r-mode...
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عنوان ژورنال: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0035-8711,1365-2966
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04323.x