J 2013

Quadrupole moments of rotating neutron stars and strange stars

STUCHLÍK, Zdeněk, Martin URBANEC and John MILLER

Basic information

Original name

Quadrupole moments of rotating neutron stars and strange stars

Authors

Edition

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a, 2013, 0035-8711

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10308 Astronomy

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

Organization unit

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava

UT WoS

000322403800010

Keywords in English

stars: neutron; stars: rotation

Tags

International impact, Reviewed

Links

GPP209/12/P740, research and development project. LC06014, research and development project. MSM4781305903, plan (intention).
Změněno: 14/4/2021 15:34, Mgr. Pavlína Jalůvková

Abstract

V originále

We present results for models of neutron stars and strange stars constructed using the Hartle-Thorne slow-rotation method with a wide range of equations of state, focusing on the values obtained for the angular momentum J and the quadrupole moment Q, when the gravitational mass M and the rotational frequency are specified. Building on previous work, which showed surprising uniformity in the behaviour of the moment of inertia for neutron-star models constructed with widely different equations of state, we find similar uniformity for the quadrupole moment. These two quantities, together with the mass, are fundamental for determining the vacuum space-time outside neutron stars. We study particularly the dimensionless combination of parameters QM/J(2) (using units for which c = G = 1). This quantity goes to 1 in the case of a Kerr-metric black hole and deviations away from 1 then characterize the difference between neutron-star and black hole space-time. It is found that QM/J(2) for both n