Elastic stars in general relativity: IV. Axial perturbations

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/24/13/003zbMATH Open1122.85002OpenAlexW4249952925MaRDI QIDQ3593263FDOQ3593263

Authors: Max Karlovini, Lars Samuelsson 

Publication date: 20 July 2007

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0703001

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

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