Linear Stability Analysis of Differentially Rotating Polytropes -- New results for the m = 2 f-mode dynamical instability --

Abstract

We have studied the $f$-mode oscillations of differentially rotating polytropes by making use of the linear stability analysis. We found that the critical values of $T/|W|$ where the dynamical instability against the $m=2$ $f$-mode oscillations sets in decrease down to $T/|W|\sim 0.20$ as the degree of differential rotation becomes higher. Here $m$ is an azimuthal mode number and $T$ and $W$ are the rotational energy and the gravitational potential energy, respectively. This tendency is almost independent of the compressibility of the polytropes. These are the {\it first exact results} of the linear stability analysis for the occurrence of the dynamical instability against the $m=2$ $f$-modes.

8 pages, 8 figures, accepted to ApJ

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