1 Introduction

Rotating Stars in Relativity

Nikolaos Stergioulas
Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, 54124
Greece
email:niksterg@astro.auth.gr
http://www.astro.auth.gr/~niksterg

(Accepted 7 March 2003)

Abstract:

Rotating relativistic stars have been studied extensively in recent years, both theoretically and observationally, because of the information they might yield about the equation of state of matter at extremely high densities and because they are considered to be promising sources of gravitational waves. The latest theoretical understanding of rotating stars in relativity is reviewed in this updated article. The sections on the equilibrium properties and on the nonaxisymmetric instabilities in f -modes and r -modes have been updated and several new sections have been added on analytic solutions for the exterior spacetime, rotating stars in LMXBs, rotating strange stars, and on rotating stars in numerical relativity.



1 Introduction

image Rotating Stars in Relativity
Nikolaos Stergioulas
http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2003-3
© Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. ISSN 1433-8351
Problems/Comments to livrev@aei.mpg.de