A compact star rotating at 1122 Hz and the r-mode instability Export

@misc{citeulike:2332726, abstract = {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 for such an object, present inside the Low Mass X-ray Binary associated with the x-ray transient XTE J1739-285, is that it has a strangeness content. Since previous analysis indicate that hyperonic stars or stars containing a kaon condensate are not good candidates, the only remaining possibility is that such an object is either a strange quark star or a hybrid quark-hadron star. We also discuss under which conditions sub-millisecond pulsars are rare.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Drago, Alessandro and Pagliara, Giuseppe and Parenti, Irene}, citeulike-article-id = {2332726}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.1510}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0704.1510}, day = {1}, eprint = {0704.1510}, keywords = {1122hz, equationofstate, theory}, month = {Feb}, posted-at = {2008-02-05 01:14:41}, priority = {2}, title = {A compact star rotating at 1122 Hz and the r-mode instability}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.1510}, year = {2008} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:2332726 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2332726 N2 - 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 for such an object, present inside the Low Mass X-ray Binary associated with the x-ray transient XTE J1739-285, is that it has a strangeness content. Since previous analysis indicate that hyperonic stars or stars containing a kaon condensate are not good candidates, the only remaining possibility is that such an object is either a strange quark star or a hybrid quark-hadron star. We also discuss under which conditions sub-millisecond pulsars are rare. TI - A compact star rotating at 1122 Hz and the r-mode instability KW - 1122hz KW - equationofstate KW - theory AU - Drago, Alessandro AU - Pagliara, Giuseppe AU - Parenti, Irene PY - 2008/Feb/01/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.1510 ER -