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Asymmetric accretion and thermal mountains in magnetized neutron star crusts

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dc.abstract.enAccreting neutron stars (NSs) are one of the main targets for continuous gravitational wave searches, as asymmetric accretion may lead to quadrupolar deformations, or `mountains', on the crust of the star, which source gravitational wave (GW) emission at twice the rotation frequency. The GW torque may also impact on the spin evolution of the star, possibly dictating the currently observed spin periods of NSs in low-mass X-ray binaries and leading to the increased spin-down rate observed during accretion in PSR J1023+0038. Previous studies have shown that deformed reaction layers in the crust of the NS lead to thermal and compositional gradients that can lead to GW emission. However, there are no realistic constraints on the level of asymmetry that is expected. In this paper, we consider a natural source of asymmetry, namely the magnetic field, and calculate the density and pressure perturbations that are expected in the crust of accreting NSs. In general, we find that only the outermost reaction layers of the NS are strongly perturbed. The mass quadrupole that we estimate is generally small and cannot explain the increase of spin-down rate of PSR J1023+0038. However, if strong shallow heating sources are present at low densities in the crust, as cooling observations suggest, these layers will be strongly perturbed and the resulting quadrupole could explain the observed spin-down of PSR J1023+0038, and lead to observable GW signals from systems with higher accretion rates.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorSingh, N.
dc.contributor.authorMukherjee, D.
dc.contributor.authorBulik, Tomasz
dc.contributor.authorHaskell, Brynmor
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-24T16:57:30Z
dc.date.available2024-01-24T16:57:30Z
dc.date.copyright2019-08-14
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.accesstimeBEFORE_PUBLICATION
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.description.number3
dc.description.versionORIGINAL_AUTHOR
dc.description.volume493
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/MNRAS/STAA442
dc.identifier.issn0035-8711
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/101243
dc.identifier.weblinkhttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020MNRAS.493.3866S
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationastronomy
dc.relation.ispartofMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
dc.relation.pages3866-3878
dc.rightsOther
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dc.titleAsymmetric accretion and thermal mountains in magnetized neutron star crusts
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication