Numerical study on the hydrodynamic instability of binary stars in the first post Newtonian approximation of general relativity

Details Numerical study on the hydrodynamic instability of binary stars in the first post Newtonian approximation of general relativity Numerical study on the hydrodynamic instability of binary stars in the first post Newtonian approximation of general relativity

1997-10-03

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9710023v1

Prog.Theor.Phys. 98 (1997) 1081-1098

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

16 pages(11 figures). To appear in Prog. Theor. Phys. vol.98(1997)

Scientific paper

10.1143/PTP.98.1081

We present numerical results on the hydrodynamic stability of coalescing binary stars in the first post Newtonian(1PN) approximation of general relativity. We pay particular attention to the hydrodynamical instability of corotating binary stars in equilibrium states assuming the stiff polytropic equation of state with the adiabatic constant $\Gamma=3$. In previous 1PN numerical studies on corotating binary stars in equilibrium states, it was found that along the sequence of binary stars as a function of the orbital separation, they have the energy and/or angular momentum minima where the secular instability sets in, and that with increase of the 1PN correction, the orbital separation at these minima decreases while the angular velocity there increases. In this paper, to know the location of the innermost stable circular orbit(ISCO), we perform numerical simulations and find where the hydrodynamical instability along the corotating sequences of binary sets in. From the numerical results, we found that the dynamical stability limit seems to exist near the energy and/or angular momentum minima not only in the Newtonian, but also in the 1PN cases. This means that the 1PN effect of general relativity increases the angular frequency of gravitational waves at the ISCO.

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