Resonant tidal excitations of rotating neutron stars in coalescing binaries
Resonant tidal excitations of rotating neutron stars in coalescing binaries
In a coalescing neutron star-neutron star or neutron star-black hole binary, oscillation modes of the neutron star can be resonantly excited by the companion during the final minutes of the binary inspiral, when the orbital frequency sweeps up from a few Hz to a few thousand Hz. The resulting resonant …