Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2002-09-26
Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 024004
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
24 pages, 25 figures, submitted to Physical Review D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.67.024004
We solve Einstein's field equations coupled to relativistic hydrodynamics in full 3+1 general relativity to evolve astrophysical systems characterized by strong gravitational fields. We model rotating, collapsing and binary stars by idealized polytropic equations of state, with neutron stars as the main application. Our scheme is based on the BSSN formulation of the field equations. We assume adiabatic flow, but allow for the formation of shocks. We determine the appearance of black holes by means of an apparent horizon finder. We introduce several new techniques for integrating the coupled Einstein-hydrodynamics system. For example, we choose our fluid variables so that they can be evolved without employing an artificial atmosphere. We also demonstrate the utility of working in a rotating coordinate system for some problems. We use rotating stars to experiment with several gauge choices for the lapse function and shift vector, and find some choices to be superior to others. We demonstrate the ability of our code to follow a rotating star that collapses from large radius to a black hole. Finally, we exploit rotating coordinates to evolve a corotating binary neutron star system in a quasi-equilibrium circular orbit for more than two orbital periods.
Baumgarte Thomas W.
Duez Matthew D.
Marronetti Pedro
Shapiro Stuart L.
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