Mountains and R-Modes in Low Mass X-Ray Binaries
Abstract
In this article I discuss Low-Mass X-ray Binaries as sources of gravitational waves and review theoretical work on the signal expected from "mountains" on the neutron star and unstable modes. In particular I will focus on the r-mode instability and discuss how X-ray data can be used to aid gravitational wave detection and to constrain the physical mechanisms at work in the stellar interior.
- Publication:
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Thirteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting: On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories
- Pub Date:
- January 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1142/9789814623995_0338
- Bibcode:
- 2015mgm..conf.1993H