Ruoff (2000, 2001) reformulated those evolution equations by means of the ADM-formalism ( Arnowitt et al. The first successful time evolutions of perturbations of relativistic neutron stars were reported by Allen et al. With increasing computational power during the 1990s, the first attempts were made to increase the dimensionality of the hitherto (due to the restriction to spherical symmetry) purely radial problem and include time as a second dimension. These universal relations provided ways for solving the inverse problem within the so-called gravitational wave asteroseismology, allowing to set constrains on the mass and/or radius of the neutron star, and eventually the nuclear equation of state, via the observation of oscillations (see, e.g., Andersson and Kokkotas (1996, 1998) Kokkotas et al. This advancement in computational accuracy allowed the study of many neutron star equations of state leading to the discovery of universal relations involving frequencies and damping times of oscillation modes. (1995)) improved considerably the accuracy in the calculation of both fluid and spacetime modes and led to the discovery of the new class of w-modes, the so-called w II-modes ( Leins et al. The short damping times of these modes (comparable to the ones of black-holes) pose numerical challenges, but the application of the continued fraction method ( Leaver (1985)) and numerical integration along anti-Stokes lines ( Andersson et al. In the mid-1980s, inspired by a toy model Kokkotas and Schutz (1986) suggested that the dynamic spacetime of a neutron star exhibits its very own class of modes and christened them w-modes ( Kokkotas and Schutz (1992)).
These results did not conclude the investigation of these modes in particular Chandrasekhar and Ferrari (1991a) Chandrasekhar and Ferrari (1991b) turned to the perturbations of relativistic stars and studied their oscillations as a scattering problem. The numerical solution of these equations has proven highly challenging and it has taken nearly two decades before Lindblom and Detweiler found an advantageous formulation of the eigenvalue problem that allowed them to determine the complex frequencies of the acoustic modes of sufficiently realistic stellar models ( Lindblom and Detweiler (1983) Detweiler and Lindblom (1985)). Thorne and Campolattaro (1967) Thorne (1969) (and subsequent papers)), in which they laid out the equations governing the perturbations of compact stars in general relativity. The systematic study of non-axisymmetric neutron star oscillations began in the 1960s with the pioneering works of Thorne and collaborators (cf. Oscillations and instabilities of neutron stars were always considered among the promising sources for gravitational waves. We also present an introductory example using a Bayesian analysis. We propose various universal relations combining bulk properties of isolated neutron stars as well as of binary systems before and after merger these relations are independent of the true equation of state and may serve as a valuable tool for gravitational wave asteroseismology. Using our code, which features high accuracy at comparably low computational expense, we are able to extract the frequencies of non-axisymmetric modes of compact objects with rotation rates up to the Kepler limit.
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We derive a set of time evolution equations for the investigation of non-axisymmetric oscillations of rapidly rotating compact objects in full general relativity, taking into account the contribution of a dynamic spacetime. In this review article, we present the main results from our most recent research concerning the oscillations of fast rotating neutron stars.
2SISSA, INFN Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy.1Theoretical Astrophysics, IAAT, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
Kokkotas 1, Praveen Manoharan 1 and Sebastian H.
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