Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2005-04-05
Phys.Rev. D72 (2005) 084002
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
42 pages, no figure. Version accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.72.084002
The asymptotic scheme of post-Newtonian approximation defined for general relativity (GR) in the harmonic gauge by Futamase & Schutz (1983) is based on a family of initial data for the matter fields of a perfect fluid and for the initial metric, defining a family of weakly self-gravitating systems. We show that Weinberg's (1972) expansion of the metric and his general expansion of the energy-momentum tensor ${\bf T}$, as well as his expanded equations for the gravitational field and his general form of the expanded dynamical equations, apply naturally to this family. Then, following the asymptotic scheme, we derive the explicit form of the expansion of ${\bf T}$ for a perfect fluid, and the expanded fluid-dynamical equations. (These differ from those written by Weinberg.) By integrating these equations in the domain occupied by a body, we obtain a general form of the translational equations of motion for a 1PN perfect-fluid system in GR. To put them into a tractable form, we use an asymptotic framework for the separation parameter $\eta $, by defining a family of well-separated 1PN systems. We calculate all terms in the equations of motion up to the order $\eta ^3$ included. To calculate the 1PN correction part, we assume that the Newtonian motion of each body is a rigid one, and that the family is quasi-spherical, in the sense that in all bodies the inertia tensor comes close to being spherical as $\eta \to 0$. Apart from corrections that cancel for exact spherical symmetry, there is in the final equations of motion one additional term, as compared with the Lorentz-Droste (Einstein-Infeld-Hoffmann) acceleration. This term depends on the spin of the body and on its internal structure.
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