Speaker
Dr
K. Glampedakis
(University of Tuebingen)
Description
This lecture provides a detailed discussion of gravitational wave-driven instabilities in neutron stars
and highlights their implications for the photon and gravitational wave astronomy of these objects.
The emphasis is given on the analysis of the (most promising) r-mode and f-mode instabilities:
we discuss the, occasionaly exotic, physics that determines their instability “windows”, the role they may play in the astrophysics of systems like accreting and newly formed neutron
stars (or strange stars), and the prospects for detection by present and future gravitational wave
observatories.
The lecture concludes with a list of key theory assignments/open issues in this research topic.
