{
  "id": "0912.3052",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2009-12-16T04:16:33.000Z",
  "updated": "2009-12-16T04:16:33.000Z",
  "title": "The role of $r$-mode damping in the thermal evolution of neutron stars",
  "authors": [
    "Shu-Hua Yang",
    "Xiao-Ping Zheng",
    "Chun-Mei Pi",
    "Yun-Wei Yu"
  ],
  "comment": "12 pages, 3 figures",
  "journal": "MNRAS 403, 2007-2011(2010)",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "The thermal evolution of neutron stars (NSs) is investigated by coupling with the evolution of $\\textit{r}$-mode instability that is described by a second order model.The heating effect due to shear viscous damping of the $\\textit{r}$-modes enables us to understand the high temperature of two young pulsars (i.e., PSR B0531+21 and RX J0822-4300) in the framework of the simple $npe$ NS model, without superfluidity or exotic particles.Moreover, the light curves predicted by the model within an acceptable parameter regime may probably cover all of the young and middle-aged pulsars in the $\\lg T_s^{\\infty}-\\lg t$ panel, and an artificially strong $p$ superfluidity invoked in some early works is not needed here. Additionally, by considering the radiative viscous damping of the $\\textit{r}$-modes, a surprising extra cooling effect is found, which can even exceed the heating effect sometimes although plays an ignorable role in the thermal history.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2009-12-16T04:16:33.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "neutron stars",
      "thermal evolution",
      "mode damping",
      "second order model",
      "heating effect"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16238.x",
      "journal": "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "Apr",
      "volume": 403,
      "number": 4,
      "pages": 2007
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 12,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 840243,
      "adsabs": "2010MNRAS.403.2007Y"
    }
  }
}