Cold Neutron Star Model in Brans-Dicke Theory of Gravity
Cold Neutron Star Model in Brans-Dicke Theory of Gravity
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布兰斯-迪克引力理论中的冷中子星模型
DOI:
10.1143/ptp.48.341
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发表时间:
1972
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通讯作者:
T. Matsuda
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作者:
T. Matsuda
Various theories of gravity have been proposed after general relativity, but many of them have been disproved for their incompleteness or disagreement with observational data.1> The scalar-tensor theory of gravity proposed by Brans and Dicke2> is one of few theories which have survived till now. It is important to investigate how the predictions of the Brans-Dicke theory would depart from that of the general relativity. The departure between two theories will become important only when the general relativistic effect itself becomes predominant. We shall investigate a cold spherical neutron star in the Brans-Dicke theory and compare the results with that of the general relativity. Salmon a 3> has already investigated the problem adopting an isotropic coordinate system. His formalism, however, is inconsistent because he assumes a needless' junction condition of a derivative of the metric at the surface of a star, and A in Eq. (11) in his paper is over-determined. In order to avoid this difficulty we employ the canonical coordinate system in the followings. On the other hand, Saakyan and Mnatsakanyan4> have developed their "generalized relativistic theory," which is identical to the Brans-Dicke theory apart from the notation. They have formulated the method of calculation which is similar to the one in the present paper. In their method, however, they have assumed A to be given by a weak :field approximation, so they would not obtain a consistent _solution in integrating an internal solution from the center to the surface of a neutron star. In this letter, the consistent way of the calculation and the numerical results are presented. We have assumed the following line element: