Temperature Effects on Core g-modes of Neutron Stars

Abstract

Neutron stars provide a unique physical laboratory to study the properties of matter at high density. We study a diagnostic of the composition of high-density matter, namely, g-mode oscillations, which are driven by buoyancy forces. These oscillations can be excited by tidal forces and couple to gravitational waves. We extend prior results for the g-mode spectrum of cold neutron star matter to temperatures that are expected to be achieved in neutron star mergers using a parameterization for finite-temperature effects recently proposed by Raithel, Özel and Psaltis. We find that the g-modes of canonical mass neutron stars ($\approx$1.4$M_{\odot }$) are suppressed at high temperature, and core $g$-modes are supported only in the most massive ($\ge$2$M_{\odot }$) of hot neutron stars.

8 pages, 4 figures