We study the tidal evolution of a binary system consisting of a 1.4 Msun
compact object in elliptic orbit about a 10 Msun uniformly rotating main
sequence star for various values of the initial orbital parameters. We apply
our previously published results of 2D non-adiabatic calculations of the
non-radial g- and r-mode oscillations of the uniformly rotating MS star, and
include the effects of resonant excitation of these modes in the tidal
evolution calculations. A high orbital eccentricity enhances the effectiveness
of the tidal interaction because of the large number of harmonic components of
the tidal potential and the reduced orbital separation near periastron. By
including the evolution of the MS star, especially of its rotation rate, many
resonance crossings occur with enhanced tidal interaction. We analyse the
phenomenon of resonance locking whereby a particular tidal harmonic is kept
resonant with a stellar oscillation mode. Resonance locking of prograde g-modes
appears an effective mechanism for orbital circularization of eccentric orbits.
We consider the orbital evolution of the binary pulsar PSR J0045-7319 and
conclude that resonance locking could explain the observed short orbital decay
time of this system if the B-star spins in the direction counter to the orbital
motion.Comment: 21 pages, 11 figures; some at reduced resolution, accepted for
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