English

Almost analytic solutions to equilibrium sequences of irrotational binary polytropic stars for n=1

Astrophysics 2009-10-31 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

A solution to an equilibrium of irrotational binary polytropic stars in Newtonian gravity is expanded in a power of \epsilon=a_0/R, where R and a_0 are the separation of the binary system and the radius of each star for R=\infty. For the polytropic index n=1, the solutions are given almost analytically up to order \epsilon^6. We have found that in general an equilibrium solution should have the velocity component along the orbital axis and that the central density should decrease when R decreases. Our almost analytic solutions can be used to check the validity of numerical solutions.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9911426,
  title  = {Almost analytic solutions to equilibrium sequences of irrotational binary polytropic stars for n=1},
  author = {Keisuke Taniguchi and Takashi Nakamura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9911426},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, revtex, accepted to Phys. Rev. Lett