Abstract
We present results on the effect of the stiffness of the equation of state on the dynamical bar-mode instability in rapidly rotating polytropic models of neutron stars in full general relativity. We determine the change in the threshold for the emergence of the instability for a range of the adiabatic index from 2.0 to 3.0, including two values chosen to mimic more realistic equations of state at high densities.
- Received 10 November 2014
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.064057
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