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Centrifugal Force and Ellipticity behaviour of a slowly rotating ultra compact object

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

Using the optical reference geometry approach, we have derived in the following, a general expression for the ellipticity of a slowly rotating fluid configuration using Newtonian force balance equation in the conformally projected absolute 3-space, in the realm of general relativity. Further with the help of Hartle-Thorne (H-T) metric for a slowly rotating compact object, we have evaluated the centrifugal force acting on a fluid element and also evaluated the ellipticity and found that the centrifugal reversal occurs at around R/Rs1.45R/R_s \approx 1.45, and the ellipticity maximum at around R/Rs2.75R/R_s \approx 2.75. The result has been compared with that of Chandrasekhar and Miller which was obtained in the full 4-spacetime formalism.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9603055,
  title  = {Centrifugal Force and Ellipticity behaviour of a slowly rotating ultra compact object},
  author = {Anshu Gupta and Sai Iyer and A. R. Prasanna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9603055},
  year   = {2009}
}