Gravity Waves from Rotating Neutron Stars and Evaluation of Fast Chirp Transform Techniques.pdfVIP

a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 0 1 0 9 5 5 9 v 1 2 8 S e p 2 0 0 1 Gravity Waves from Rotating Neutron Stars and Evaluation of Fast Chirp Transform Techniques Tod E. Strohmayer? § ? Laboratory for High Energy Astrohphysics, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, 20771 Abstract. X-ray observations suggest that neutron stars in low mass X-ray binaries (LMXB) are rotating with frequencies from 300 - 600 Hz. These spin rates are significantly less than the break-up rates for essentially all realistic neutron star equations of state, suggesting that some process may limit the spin frequencies of accreting n