Rotating stars in relativity

2016/12/31 by Vasileios Paschalidis, Nikolaos Stergioulas
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #General relativity #Gravitation #Instability #Magnetic field #Magnetohydrodynamic drive #Magnetohydrodynamics #Mechanics #Numerical relativity #Physics #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Spacetime #Stars #Theoretical physics #Theory of relativity #astro-ph.HE #astro-ph.SR #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s41114-017-0008-x

published as Living. Rev. Relativ., (2017) 20: 7 · 174 pages, 40 figures, accepted by Living Reviews in Relativity, matches published version

openalex publication_date 2017/11/29 · arxiv created 2017/11/30 · arxiv updated 2017/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06

Abstract

Abstract Rotating relativistic stars have been studied extensively in recent years, both theoretically and observationally, because of the information they might yield about the equation of state of matter at extremely high densities and because they are considered to be promising sources of gravitational waves. The latest theoretical understanding of rotating stars in relativity is reviewed in this updated article. The sections on equilibrium properties and on nonaxisymmetric oscillations and instabilities in f-modes and r-modes have been updated. Several new sections have been added on equilibria in modified theories of gravity, approximate universal relationships, the one-arm spiral instability, on analytic solutions for the exterior spacetime, rotating stars in LMXBs, rotating strange stars, and on rotating stars in numerical relativity including both hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic studies of these objects.

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