Comparing the inspiral of irrotational and corotational binary neutron stars

Matthew D. Duez, Thomas W. Baumgarte, Stuart L. Shapiro, Masaru Shibata, Köji Uryu

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Abstract

We model the adiabatic inspirai of relativistic binary neutron stars in a quasi-equilibrium (QE) approximation, and compute the gravitational wavetrain from the late phase of the inspiral. We compare corotational and irrotational sequences and find a significant difference in the inspirai rate, which is almost entirely caused by differences in the binding energy. We also compare our results with those of a point-mass post-Newtonian calculation. We illustrate how the late inspirai wavetrain computed with our QE numerical scheme can be matched to the subsequent plunge and merger waveform calculated with a fully relativistic hydrodynamics code.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number024016
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume65
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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