Revisiting Vaidya-Tikekar stellar model in the linear regime
Abstract
We obtain a new class of solutions by revisiting the Vaidya-Tikekar stellar model in the linear regime. Making use of the Vaidya and Tikekar metric ansatz [J. Astrophys. Astron. {\bf3} (1982) 325] describing the spacetime of static spherically symmetric relativistic star composed of an anisotropic matter distribution admitting a linear EOS, we solve the Einstein field equations and subsequently analyze physical viability of the solution. We probe the impact of the curvature parameter of the Vaidya-Tikekar model, which characterizes a departure from homogeneous spherical distribution, on the mass-radius relationship of the star. In the context of density-dependent MIT Bag models, we show a correlation between the curvature parameter, the bag constant and total mass and radius of some of the well-known pulsars viz., 4U 1820-30, RX J1856-37, SAXJ 1808.4 and Her X-1. We explore the possibility of fine-tuning these parameters based on current observational data.
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@article{arxiv.2006.12267,
title = {Revisiting Vaidya-Tikekar stellar model in the linear regime},
author = {Ranjan Sharma and Shyam Das and Megan Govender and Dishant M. Pandya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.12267},
year = {2020}
}