The post-Newtonian effects of general relativity on the equilibrium of uniformly rotating bodies. I. The Maclaurin spheroids and the virial theorem

Chandrasekhar, S. (1965) The post-Newtonian effects of general relativity on the equilibrium of uniformly rotating bodies. I. The Maclaurin spheroids and the virial theorem Astrophysical Journal, 142 . pp. 1513-1518. ISSN 0004-637X

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Abstract

The post-Newtonian effects of general relativity on the equilibrium of uniformly rotating bodies are considered with the aid of a suitably generalized version of the classical tensor virial theorem. An exact relation exhibiting the relativistic effects is obtained; and it shows that, if the figure of equilibrium is approximated by a spheroid, the effect of general relativity is to attribute to the spheroid a larger angular velocity than the Newtonian value.

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