Strange stars in $f(\mathcal{R})$ gravity Palatini formalism and gravitational wave echoes from them

TL;DR

This paper investigates strange stars within $f( ext{R})$ gravity in the Palatini formalism, exploring their structure and potential gravitational wave echoes, with implications for astrophysical observations and model constraints.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of strange stars in $f( ext{R})$ gravity models, computing their structures and GW echo signatures, which is novel in combining modified gravity with GW phenomenology.

Findings

GW echo frequencies range from 65 to 85 kHz.

Stiffer equations of state lead to more compact strange stars.

$f( ext{R})$ models can produce observable GW echoes.

Abstract

The compact stars are promising candidates associated with the generation of gravitational waves (GWs). In this work, we study a special type of compact stars known as strange stars in the $f(\mathcal{R})$ gravity Palatini formalism. Here we consider three promising $f(\mathcal{R})$ gravity models viz., Starobinsky, Hu-Sawicki and Gogoi-Goswami models in the domain of MIT Bag model and linear equations of state (EoSs). We compute the stellar structures numerically and constrained the $f(\mathcal{R})$ model parameters with a set of probable strange star candidates. The study shows that the consideration of stiffer MIT Bag model and linear EoSs within a favourable set of $f(\mathcal{R})$ gravity model parameters may result in strange stars with sufficient compactness to produce echoes of GWs. Thus, we have computed the GWs echo frequencies and characteristic echo times for such stars. It is found that in compliance with the experimentally obtained possible strange star candidates, the obtained GW echo frequencies for all the models are in the range of $65 - 85$ kHz.