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Effect of a neutron-star crust on the r-mode instability
Lee Lindblom, Benjamin J. Owen, Greg Ushomirsky
The presence of a viscous boundary layer under the solid crust of a neutron star dramatically increases the viscous damping rate of the fluid r-modes. We improve previous estimates…
Crust-core coupling and r-mode damping in neutron stars: a toy model
Yuri Levin, Greg Ushomirsky
R-modes in neutron stars with crusts are damped by viscous friction at the crust-core boundary. The magnitude of this damping, evaluated by Bildsten and Ushomirsky (BU) under the a…
Gravitational Waves from Low-Mass X-ray Binaries: a Status Report
Greg Ushomirsky, Lars Bildsten, Curt Cutler
We summarize the observations of the spin periods of rapidly accreting neutron stars. If gravitational radiation is responsible for balancing the accretion torque at the observed s…
Deformations of Accreting Neutron Star Crusts and Gravitational Wave Emission
Greg Ushomirsky, Curt Cutler, Lars Bildsten
Motivated by the narrow range of spin frequencies of nearly 20 accreting neutron stars, Bildsten (1998) conjectured that their spin-up had been halted by the emission of gravitatio…