what’s new with the r-modes?
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What’s New With The R-modes?. Gregory Mendell LIGO Hanford Observatory. Neutron Stars are…. Really compact (2GM/Rc 2 ~ .2) Spin really fast (Up to 2000 Hz? Fastest known = 642 Hz) Have really intense magnetic fields (10 12 Gauss) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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What’s New With The R-modes?
Gregory Mendell
LIGO Hanford Observatory
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Neutron Stars are…
• Really compact (2GM/Rc2 ~ .2)• Spin really fast (Up to 2000 Hz? Fastest known =
642 Hz)• Have really intense magnetic fields (1012 Gauss)• Cool from a birth temperature of 1011 K to 109 K in
1 year• Form a solid crust for T < 1010 K (30 s after birth if
no heating occurs)
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Neutron Stars
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Gravitational-radiation Driven Instability of Rotating Stars
• GR tends to drive all rotating stars unstable!
• Internal dissipation in the star can suppress the instability
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Ocean Wave Instability
Wind
Current
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Gravitational-radiation Driven Instability of Rotating Stars
• GR tends to drive all rotating stars unstable!
• Internal dissipation in the star can suppress the instability
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The R-modes
• The r-modes corresponds to oscillating flows of material (currents) in the star that arise due to the Coriolis effect.
• The current pattern travels in the azimuthal direction around the star as exp(it + im)
• For the m = 2 r-mode: Phase velocity in the corotating frame: -1/3 Phase velocity in the inertial frame: +2/3
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Courtesy Lee Lindblom
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Courtesy Lee Lindblom
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R-mode Instability Calculations
• Gravitation radiation tends to make the r-modes grow on a time scale GR
• Internal friction (e.g., viscosity) in the star tends to damp the r-modes on a time scale F
• The shorter time scale wins: GR F : Unstable! GR F : Stable!
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Key Parameters to Understanding the R-mode Instability
• Critical angular velocity for the onset of the instability
• Saturation amplitude
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Magnetic Effects on Viscous Boundary Layers
• Previously it has been shown that viscous boundary layer damping is the most important suppression mechanism of the r-modes in neutron stars with a solid crust (Bildsten and Ushomirsky, ApJ 529, L33 (2000)
• Magnetic effects on the viscous boundary layer were expected to be important at high temperatures.
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Viscous Boundary Layers
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Add Magnetic Field…
B
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Magneto-viscous Boundary Layer With Alfven Waves
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MVBL Critical Angular VelocityMendell gr-qc/0102042
B = 1012
B = 1011
B = 1010
B = 0
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SaturationLindblom, Owen, Ushomirsky, Phys. Rev. D 62, 084030 (2000)
Wu, Matzner, and Arras, astro-ph/0006123
• Simple definition of the saturation amplitude: = [maximum value of the perturbed velocity] / [equilibrium velocity at the surface of the star]
• Heat generated by in a turbulent VBL melts the crust when = 5.6 X 10-4 ( /o)-1
• Turbulence in the VBL causes the mode to saturate when = 0.015 ( /o)5
• Crust melts only if /max > 0.87 (MVBL heating should lower this number.)
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Self-organized Pack Ice in the Presence of the R-mode
Lindblom, Owen, Ushomirsky, Phys. Rev. D 62, 084030 (2000)
• If a solid crust forms, heat in the VBL melts the crust (for sufficiently large )
• If the crust melts, neutrino cooling lowers the temperature below the melting temperature
• Thus, chunks of crust will self-organize (by adjusting their size) until the heating rate equals cooling rates.
• The star continues to spin down until pack ice dissipation suppresses the instability. For = 1 the star spins down to /o = 0.093
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R-mode Movie
See: http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/projects/hydrligo/rmode.html
Lee Lindblom, Joel E. Tohline and Michele Vallisneri (2001), Phys. Rev. Letters 86, 1152-1155 (2001).
Computed using Fortran 90 code linked wtih the MPI library on CACR’s HP Exemplar V2500.
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Remaining Questions
• Superfluid case (T 109 K)? Alfven waves are replaced cyclotron vortex
waves; otherwise results could be similar, but it depends how vortices pin at crust-core interface
• Nonlinear winding of magnetic field lines• Mode coupling to g-modes and other
saturation effects• Semi-rigid crust
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The R-modes: Some New Results
Greg Mendell, LIGO Hanford Observatory
Mar 9 2001
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Mar 14 2001
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Learning Curve
Log(time)
Log(knowledge)
Enhanced LIGO detects r-modes