Models of helically symmetric binary systems

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2006-05-05

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0605035v1

Class.Quant.Grav. 23 (2006) S599-S614

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

19 pages, 7 figures. Expanded version of article to be published in Class. Quantum Grav. special issue on Numerical Relativity

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/23/16/S16

Results from helically symmetric scalar field models and first results from a convergent helically symmetric binary neutron star code are reported here; these are models stationary in the rotating frame of a source with constant angular velocity omega. In the scalar field models and the neutron star code, helical symmetry leads to a system of mixed elliptic-hyperbolic character. The scalar field models involve nonlinear terms that mimic nonlinear terms of the Einstein equation. Convergence is strikingly different for different signs of each nonlinear term; it is typically insensitive to the iterative method used; and it improves with an outer boundary in the near zone. In the neutron star code, one has no control on the sign of the source, and convergence has been achieved only for an outer boundary less than approximately 1 wavelength from the source or for a code that imposes helical symmetry only inside a near zone of that size. The inaccuracy of helically symmetric solutions with appropriate boundary conditions should be comparable to the inaccuracy of a waveless formalism that neglects gravitational waves; and the (near zone) solutions we obtain for waveless and helically symmetric BNS codes with the same boundary conditions nearly coincide.

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