Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2011-05-16
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.416:L1-L5,2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
5 pages, 4 figures; accepted to MNRAS Letters
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1745-3933.2011.01085.x
The stability properties of relativistic stars against gravitational collapse to black hole is a classical problem in general relativity. A sufficient criterion for secular instability was established by Friedman, Ipser and Sorkin (1988), who proved that a sequence of uniformly rotating barotropic stars is secularly unstable on one side of a turning point and then argued that a stronger result should hold: that the sequence should be stable on the opposite side, with the turning point marking the onset of secular instability. We show here that this expectation is not met. By computing in full general relativity the $F$-mode frequency for a large number of rotating stars, we show that the neutral-stability point, i.e., where the frequency becomes zero, differs from the turning point for rotating stars. Using numerical simulations we validate that the new criterion can be used to assess the dynamical stability of relativistic rotating stars.
Rezzolla Luciano
Takami Kentaro
Yoshida Shin'ichirou
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