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Gravitational-Wave Asteroseismology as a Tool to Reveal the Equation of State of Relativistic Neutron Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Johannes Ruoff*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, e-mail:[email protected]

Abstract

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The equation of state (EOS) is still the big unknown in the physics of neutron stars. An accurate measurement of both the mass and the radius of a neutron star would put severe constraints on the range of possible EOSs. I discuss how the parameters of the oscillation modes of a neutron star, measured from the emitted gravitational waves, can in principle be used to infer its mass and radius, and thus reveal its EOS.

Type
Part 6. Asteroseismology from Space and from the Ground
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002

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