Rotating Stars in Relativity.
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 inf-modes andr-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.


BACKGROUND
Supplementary material is available for this article at 10.12942/lrr-2003-3.
Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124 Greece.
Nikolaos
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Stergioulas