  Studying the frequency and temperature evolution of a compact star can give
us valuable information about the microscopic properties of the matter inside
the star. In this paper we study the effect of dissipative reheating of a
neutron star due to r-mode oscillations on its temperature evolution. We find
that there is still an impact of an r-mode phase on the temperature long after
the star has left the instability region and the r-mode is damped completely.
With accurate temperature measurements it may be possible to detect this trace
of a previous r-mode phase in observed pulsars.
