{
  "id": "0910.5064",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2009-10-27T09:17:28.000Z",
  "updated": "2009-10-27T09:17:28.000Z",
  "title": "Sinking of a magnetically confined mountain on an accreting neutron star",
  "authors": [
    "K. Wette",
    "M. Vigelius",
    "A. Melatos"
  ],
  "comment": "13 pages, 12 figures, and 3 tables; accepted for publication in MNRAS",
  "journal": "MNRAS 402 1099--1110 (2010)",
  "doi": "10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15937.x",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "We perform ideal-magnetohydrodynamic axisymmetric simulations of magnetically confined mountains on an accreting neutron star, with masses less than ~0.12 solar masses. We consider two scenarios, in which the mountain sits atop a hard surface or sinks into a soft, fluid base. We find that the ellipticity of the star, due to a mountain grown on a hard surface, approaches ~2e-4 for accreted masses greater than ~1.2e-3 solar masses, and that sinking reduces the ellipticity by between 25% and 60%. The consequences for gravitational radiation from low-mass x-ray binaries are discussed.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2009-10-27T09:17:28.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "accreting neutron star",
      "magnetically confined mountain",
      "hard surface",
      "solar masses",
      "perform ideal-magnetohydrodynamic axisymmetric simulations"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "Wiley-Blackwell",
      "journal": "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "Feb",
      "volume": 402,
      "number": 2,
      "pages": 1099
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 13,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 835247,
      "adsabs": "2010MNRAS.402.1099W"
    }
  }
}