Bulk viscosity in neutron stars with hyperon cores

Abstract

It is well-known that r-mode oscillations of rotating neutron stars may be unstable with respect to the gravitational wave emission. It is highly unlikely to observe a neutron star with the parameters within the instability window, a domain where this instability is not suppressed. But if one adopts the `minimal' (nucleonic) composition of the stellar interior, a lot of observed stars appear to be within the r-mode instability window. One of the possible solutions to this problem is to account for hyperons in the neutron star core. The presence of hyperons allows for a set of powerful (lepton-free) non-equilibrium weak processes, which increase the bulk viscosity, and thus suppress the r-mode instability. Existing calculations of the instability windows for hyperon NSs generally use reaction rates calculated for the ${\Sigma }^{-}\Lambda$ hyperonic composition via the contact $W$ boson exchange interaction. In contrast, here we employ hyperonic equations of state where the $\Lambda$ and ${\Xi }^{-}$ are the first hyperons to appear (the ${\Sigma }^{-}$'s, if they are present, appear at much larger densities), and consider the meson exchange channel, which is more effective for the lepton-free weak processes. We calculate the bulk viscosity for the non-paired $npe\mu \Lambda {\Xi }^{-}$ matter using the meson exchange weak interaction. A number of viscosity-generating non-equilibrium processes is considered (some of them for the first time in the neutron-star context). The calculated reaction rates and bulk viscosity are approximated by simple analytic formulas, easy-to-use in applications. Applying our results to calculation of the instability window, we argue that accounting for hyperons may be a viable solution to the r-mode problem.

arXiv comment21 pages, 13 figures, 4 tables, accepted in PRD (selected as PRD editors' suggestion)

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