Pseudo-Newtonian Models for the Equilibrium Structures of Rotating Relativistic Stars

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2009-07-13

arxiv.org/abs/0907.2095v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

11 pages, 12 figures, to appear in MNRAS

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We obtain equilibrium solutions for rotating compact stars including the special relativistic effects. The gravity is assumed to be Newtonian, but we used the active mass density, which takes into account all the energies such as motions of the fluids, internal energy, pressure energy in addition to the rest mass energy, in computing the gravitational potential using Poisson's equation. Such a treatment could be applicable to the neutron stars with relativistic motions or relativistic equation of state. We applied the Hachisu's self-consistent field (SCF) method to find spheroidal as well as toroidal sequences of equilibrium solutions. Our solutions show better agreement than Newtonian relativistic hydrodynamic approach that does not take into account the active mass, with general relativistic solutions. The physical quantities such as the peak density, equatorial radii of our solutions agree with general relativistic ones within 5%.Therefore our approach can be a simple alternative to the fully relativistic one when large number of model calculations are necessary as it requires much less computational resources.

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