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Quadrupole Moments of Rapidly Rotating Compact Objects in Dilatonic Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Theory

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2014-09-08 v1

Abstract

We consider rapidly rotating black holes and neutron stars in dilatonic Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGBd) theory and determine their quadrupole moments, which receive a contribution from the dilaton. The quadrupole moment of EGBd black holes can be considerably larger than the Kerr value. For neutron stars, the universality property of the I^\hat I-Q^\hat Q relation between the scaled moment of inertia and the scaled quadrupole moment appears to extend to EGBd theory.

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@article{arxiv.1407.6884,
  title  = {Quadrupole Moments of Rapidly Rotating Compact Objects in Dilatonic Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Theory},
  author = {Burkhard Kleihaus and Jutta Kunz and Sindy Mojica},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.6884},
  year   = {2014}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures