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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 677, Issue 2, Pages 1216-1220Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/533487
Keywords
equation of state; gravitation; relativity; stars : neutron
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- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [0757735] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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For a variety of fully relativistic polytropic neutron star models we calculate the star's tidal Love number k(2). Most realistic equations of state for neutron stars can be approximated as a polytrope with an effective index n approximate to 0.5-1.0. The equilibrium stellar model is obtained by numerical integration of the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkhov equations. We calculate the linear l = 2 static perturbations to the Schwarzschild spacetime following the method of Thorne and Campolattaro. Combining the perturbed Einstein equations into a single second-order differential equation for the perturbation to the metric coefficient g(tt) and matching the exterior solution to the asymptotic expansion of the metric in the star's local asymptotic rest frame gives the Love number. Our results agree well with the Newtonian results in the weak field limit. The fully relativistic values differ from the Newtonian values by up to similar to 24%. The Love number is potentially measurable in gravitational wave signals from inspiralling binary neutron stars.
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