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Ecole doctorale de Physique de la région Parisienne (ED107)

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128 Inertial mo<strong>de</strong>s in slowly rotating stars : An evolutionary <strong>de</strong>scription<br />

S xx<br />

Sp(S xx )<br />

6<br />

4<br />

2<br />

0<br />

-2<br />

-4<br />

-6<br />

0 50 100 150<br />

t Ω<br />

1.5<br />

1<br />

0.5<br />

0<br />

0 2 4 6 8 10<br />

3ω / Ω<br />

Figure 4.13 – Time evolution of one of the two in<strong>de</strong>pen<strong>de</strong>nt components of the Sij[t]<br />

tensor corresponding to the same run as the results in Figures 4.11 and 4.12. Here can<br />

really be seen the fact that there is only one unstable mo<strong>de</strong> with the frequency of the<br />

linear r-mo<strong>de</strong> and that the ane<strong>la</strong>stic approximation does not change this feature.<br />

background due to frame dragging. Yet, since the main reason for this difference is the<br />

modification of the NSE and the possible appearance of what is called a continuous<br />

spectrum [see Ruoff & Kokkotas (2001), (2002) and Beyer & Kokkotas (1999)], the same<br />

may append even in the Newtonian case if the star is not rigidly but differentially rotating.<br />

And there are several reasons why a NS may not be in rigid rotation : first, the birth<br />

conditions of the NS themselves ; second, the nonlinear coupling of mo<strong>de</strong>s ; then, a possible<br />

drift induced by the existence of a magnetic field. As we are here only <strong>de</strong>aling with linear<br />

hydrodynamics and tests of the co<strong>de</strong>, we will not give more <strong>de</strong>tails about those processes<br />

[but will send the rea<strong>de</strong>r to the following articles for more <strong>de</strong>tails : Spruit (1999), Rezzol<strong>la</strong><br />

et al. (2000), (2001a) and (2001b), and Schenk et al. (2002)]. What we have done is just to<br />

take as a given that the background star is differentially rotating with quite an arbitrary<br />

<strong>la</strong>w and to look at the influence of this <strong>la</strong>w on the existence of the mo<strong>de</strong>s. Nevertheless,<br />

instead of asking the question “Is there any r-mo<strong>de</strong> left in a differentially rotating NS ?”<br />

that is not well <strong>de</strong>fined, we <strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong>d to try to answer to two different and more precise<br />

questions :<br />

- is there anything growing when an RR force is applied on noise in a differentially<br />

rotating background ?<br />

- what does happen to the linear r-mo<strong>de</strong>s if they are chosen to be the initial data in<br />

such kind of background ?<br />

Some lights on these questions are in the following subsections, but we shall begin with<br />

some words about the modifications implied on the equations by differential rotation.

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