Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 91, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.91.104018
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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We construct the external metric of a slowly rotating, tidally deformed material body in general relativity. The tidal forces acting on the body are assumed to be weak and to vary slowly with time, and the metric is obtained as a perturbation of a background metric that describes the external geometry of an isolated, slowly rotating body. The tidal environment is generic and characterized by two symmetric trace-free tidal moments epsilon(ab) and beta(ab), and the body is characterized by its mass M, its radius R, and a dimensionless angular-momentum vector chi(a) << 1. The perturbation accounts for all couplings between chi(a) and the tidal moments. The body's gravitational response to the applied tidal field is measured in part by the familiar gravitational Love numbers K-2(el) and K-2(mag), but we find that the coupling between the body's rotation and the tidal environment requires the introduction of four new quantities, which we designate as rotational-tidal Love numbers. All these Love numbers are gauge invariant in the usual sense of perturbation theory, and all vanish when the body is a black hole.
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