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Gravitational-wave driven instability of rotating relativistic stars

John L. Friedman, Keith H. Lockitch

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9908083

Abstract

A brief review of the stability of rotating relativistic stars is followed by a more detailed discussion of recent work on an instability of r-modes, modes of rotating stars that have axial parity in the slow-rotation limit. These modes may dominate the spin-down of neutron stars that are rapidly rotating at birth, and the gravitational waves they emit may be detectable.

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