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A new numerical scheme to compute 3D configurations of quasiequilibrium compact stars in general relativity -- Application to synchronously rotating binary star systems --

Fumihiko Usui·Koji Uryu·Yoshiharu Eriguchi
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We have developed a new numerical scheme to obtain quasiequilibrium structures of nonaxisymmetric compact stars such as binary neutron star systems as well as the spacetime around those systems in general relativity. Concerning quasiequilibrium states of binary systems in general relativity, several investigations have been already carried out by assuming conformal flatness of the spatial part of the metric. However, the validity of the conformally flat treatment has not been fully analyzed except for axisymmetric configurations. Therefore it is desirable to solve quasiequilibrium states by developing totally different methods from the conformally flat scheme. In this paper we present a new numerical scheme to solve directly the Einstein equations for 3D configurations without assuming conformal flatness, although we make use of the simplified metric for the spacetime. This new formulation is the extension of the scheme which has been successfully applied for structures of axisymmetric rotating compact stars in general relativity. It is based on the integral representation of the Einstein equations by taking the boundary conditions at infinity into account. We have checked our numerical scheme by computing equilibrium sequences of binary polytropic star systems in Newtonian gravity and those of axisymmetric polytropic stars in general relativity. We have applied this numerical code to binary star systems in general relativity and have succeeded in obtaining several equilibrium sequences of synchronously rotating binary polytropes with the polytropic indices N = 0.0, 0.5 and 1.0.

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Fumihiko Usui, Koji Uryu, Yoshiharu Eriguchi. 1999-06-24. A new numerical scheme to compute 3D configurations of quasiequilibrium compact stars in general relativity -- Application to synchronously rotating binary star systems --. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.61.024039

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