Elastic stars in general relativity: IV. Axial perturbations

Details Elastic stars in general relativity: IV. Axial perturbations Elastic stars in general relativity: IV. Axial perturbations

2007-02-28

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0703001v1

Class.Quant.Grav.24:3171-3190,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

18 pages, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/24/13/003

This is the fourth paper in a series that attempt to put forward a consistent framework for modelling solid regions in neutron stars. Here we turn our attention to axial perturbations of spherically symmetric spacetimes using a gauge invariant approach due to one of us. Using the formalism developed in the first paper in the series it turns out that the matter perturbations are neatly expressible in terms of a ``metric'' tensor field depending only on the speeds of shear wave propagation along the principal directions in the solid. The results are applicable to a wide class of elastic materials and does not assume material isotropy nor quasi-Hookean behaviour. The perturbation equations are then specialised to a static background and are given by two coupled wave equations. Our formalism is thus slightly simpler than the previously existing results of Shumaker & Thorne, where an additional initial value equation needs to be solved. The simplification is mainly due to the gauge invariance of our approach and shows up also in somewhat simpler boundary conditions. We also give a first order formulation suitable for numerical integration of the quasi-normal mode problem of a neutron star. The relations between the gauge independent variables and the, in general, gauge dependent perturbed metric and strain tensor are explicitly given.

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