Towards a self-consistent relativistic model of the exterior gravitational field of rapidly rotating neutron stars

We present a self-consistent, relativistic model of rapidly rotating neutron stars describing their exterior gravitational field. This is achieved by matching the new solution of Einstein's field equations found recently by Manko et al. and the numerical results for the interior of neutron star...

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Published in:Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 336; no. 3; pp. 831 - 840
Main Authors: Stute, Matthias, Camenzind, Max
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 23 Ainslie Place , Edinburgh EH3 6AJ , UK . Telephone 226 7232 Fax 226 3803 Blackwell Science Ltd 01.11.2002
Subjects:
gravitation
methods: analytical
relativity
stars: neutron
stars: rotation
methods: analytical
gravitation
relativity
stars: rotation
stars: neutron
ISSN:0035-8711, 1365-2966
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Summary:We present a self-consistent, relativistic model of rapidly rotating neutron stars describing their exterior gravitational field. This is achieved by matching the new solution of Einstein's field equations found recently by Manko et al. and the numerical results for the interior of neutron stars with different equations of state calculated earlier by Cook et al. This matching process gives constraints for the choice of the five parameters of the vacuum solution. Then we investigate some properties of the gravitational field of rapidly rotating neutron stars with these fixed parameters.
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ISSN:0035-8711
1365-2966
DOI:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05820.x