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Wei-Jie Fu1, Hai-Qing Wei, Yu-Xin Liu
1Department of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Abstract:
The gravity-mode (g-mode) eigenfrequencies of newly born strange quark stars (SQSs) and neutron stars (NSs) are studied. It is found that the eigenfrequencies in SQSs are much lower than those in NSs by almost 1 order of magnitude, since the components of a SQS are all extremely relativistic particles while nucleons in a NS are nonrelativistic. We therefore propose that newly born SQSs can be distinguished from the NSs by detecting the eigenfrequencies of the g-mode pulsations of supernovae cores through gravitational radiation by LIGO-class detectors.
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