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A compact star rotating at 1122 Hz and the r-mode instability
Alessandro Drago, Giuseppe Pagliara, Irene Parenti
We show that r-mode instabilities severely constraint the composition of a compact star rotating at a submillisecond period. In particular, the only viable astrophysical scenario f…
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Transition to Quark Matter and long Gamma Ray Bursts
Alessandro Drago, Giuseppe Pagliara, Irene Parenti
The energy released by the inner engine of GRBs can originate from structural readjustments inside a compact star. In particular, the formation of deconfined quark matter can liber…