Gravitational waves from nonradial oscillations of stochastically accreting neutron stars
Gravitational waves from nonradial oscillations of stochastically accreting neutron stars Wenhao Dong, Andrew Melatos arXiv:2404.11866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Oscillating neutron stars are sources of continuous gravitational waves. We study analytically the excitation of stellar oscillations by the mechanical impact on the stellar surface of ”clumps” of stochastically accreted matter. We calculate the waveform and spectrum of the gravitational wave signal emitted by the accretion-driven pulsations. Results are generated for an idealised model of a nonrotating, unmagnetised, one-component star with uniform polytropic index $n_{rm poly}$ assuming Newtonian gravity and the Cowling approximation. We find that the excited mode amplitudes grow with increasing $n_{rm poly}$ andRead More →