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Binary Neutron Stars: Equilibrium Models beyond Spatial Conformal Flatness

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Equilibria of binary neutron stars in close circular orbits are computed numerically in a waveless formulation: the full Einstein-relativistic-Euler system is solved on an initial hypersurface to obtain an asymptotically flat form of the 4-metric and an extrinsic curvature whose time derivative vanishes in a comoving frame. Two independent numerical codes are developed, and solution sequences that model inspiraling binary neutron stars during the final several orbits are successfully computed. The binding energy of the system near its final orbit deviates from earlier results of third post-Newtonian and of spatially conformally flat calculations. The new solutions may serve as initial data for merger simulations and as members of quasiequilibrium sequences to generate gravitational-wave templates, and may improve estimates of the gravitational-wave cutoff frequency set by the last inspiral orbit.
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hal-03742480 , version 1 (19-08-2023)

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Koji Uryu, François Limousin, John L. Friedman, Éric Gourgoulhon, Masaru Shibata. Binary Neutron Stars: Equilibrium Models beyond Spatial Conformal Flatness. Physical Review Letters, 2006, 97, pp.171101. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.171101⟩. ⟨hal-03742480⟩
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