The free precession of slowly rotating neutron stars Rigid-body motion in general relativity

Details The free precession of slowly rotating neutron stars Rigid-body motion in general relativity The free precession of slowly rotating neutron stars Rigid-body motion in general relativity

Nov 1983

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 205, Nov. 1983, p. 809-817.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Neutron Stars, Precession, Relativity, Stellar Rotation, Angular Velocity, Einstein Equations, Euler Equations Of Motion, Pulsars, Rigid Structures

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The paper discusses the free precession of slowly rotating neutron stars, idealized as rigidly rotating, fully general relativistic bodies. It is shown that, in the limit of slow rotation, general relativistic gravity produces no changes whatsoever in the classical Euler equations of rigid body motion. The proof is sketched in the body of the paper in language accessible to people who know only a little general relativity. An appendix justifies some assertions in the proof by giving an algorithm for generating slowly and rigidly rotating solutions of Einstein's equations from non-rotating, static solutions.

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