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GR: Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR II: HV II

GR II.1: Invited Talk

Monday, March 18, 2002, 11:15–12:00, HS 20

Highly accurate calculation of rotating neutron stars — •Marcus Ansorg, Andreas Kleinwächter, and Reinhard Meinel — Theoretisch–Physikalisches Institut, Universität Jena, Max–Wien–Platz 1, D–07743 Jena

A new spectral code for constructing general–relativistic models of rapidly rotating stars with an unprecedented accuracy is presented. As a first application, we reexamine uniformly rotating homogeneous stars and compare our results with those obtained by several previous codes. Moreover, representative relativistic examples corresponding to highly flattened rotating bodies are given.

Reference: astro-ph/0111080, to appear in Astronomy and Astrophysics (Letters)