Spectrum of shear modes in the neutron-star crust: Estimating the nuclear-physics uncertainties
arXiv:1607.06998 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.95.015803
Abstract
I construct a model of the inner crust of neutron stars using interactions from chiral effective field theory (EFT) in order to calculate its equation of state (EOS), shear properties, and the spectrum of crustal shear modes. I systematically study uncertainties associated with the nuclear physics input, the crust composition, and neutron entrainment, and estimate their impact on crustal shear properties and the shear-mode spectrum. I find that the uncertainties originate mainly in two sources: The neutron-matter EOS and neutron entrainment. I compare the spectrum of crustal shear modes to observed frequencies of quasi-periodic oscillations in the afterglow of giant -ray bursts and find that all of these frequencies could be described within uncertainties, which are, however, at present too sizable to infer neutron-star properties from observations.
13 pages, 10 figures, published version
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