image Amendment 3 published on 31 Aug 2001:
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Estimated timescale in which uniform rotation of neutron star is enforced has been changed from the order of seconds to the order of thousands of seconds.


Old version as published on 18 Jun 1998:

"(...) At birth, a neutron star is differentially rotating, but as the neutron star cools, shear viscosity, resulting from neutrino diffusion, aided by convective and turbulent motions and possibly by the winding-up of magnetic field lines, enforces uniform rotation. At present, it is difficult to accurately compute the timescale in which uniform is enforced, but it is estimated to be of the order of seconds [2 Jump To The Next Citation Point In The Article]. (...)"


Author comment as communicated to journal on 19 Jul 1999:

"In the last sentence of the second paragraph, the word 'seconds' should actually be 'thousands of seconds'. I got the first number from the reference that I give, but then I talked to one of the authors who said it could be anywhere from seconds to thousands of seconds, but he was now more confident that it is the latter... In any case, nobody has done a real calculation about this so far, so these are only gross estimates." (Nikolaos Stergioulas)
image Rotating Stars in Relativity
Nikolaos Stergioulas
Publication No. 1998-8 (Amendment 3/31 Aug 2001)