INVESTIGADORES
ROMERO Gustavo Esteban
artículos
Título:
Structure of neutron stars in R-squared gravity
Autor/es:
ORELLANA, MARIANA; GARCÍA, FEDERICO; TEPPA PANNIA, FLORENCIA A.; ROMERO, GUSTAVO E.
Revista:
GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION
Editorial:
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
Referencias:
Lugar: New York; Año: 2013 vol. 45 p. 771 - 783
ISSN:
0001-7701
Resumen:
The effects implied for the structure of compact objects by the
modification of General Relativity (GR) produced by the generalization
of the Lagrangian density to the form f(R)=R+α R^2, where R is the
Ricci curvature scalar, have been recently explored. It seems likely
that this squared-gravity may allow heavier Neutron Stars (NSs) than GR.
In addition, these objects can be useful to constrain free parameters of
modified-gravity theories. The differences between alternative gravity
theories are enhanced in the strong gravitational regime. In this
regime, because of the complexity of the field equations, perturbative
methods become a good choice to treat the problem. Following previous
works in the field, we performed a numerical integration of the
structure equations that describe NSs in f(R)-gravity, recovering their
mass-radius relations, but focusing on particular features that arise
from this approach in the profiles of the NS interior. We show that
these profiles run in correlation with the second-order derivative of
the analytic approximation to the Equation of State (EoS), which leads
to regions where the enclosed mass decreases with the radius in a
counter-intuitive way. We reproduce all computations with a simple
polytropic EoS to separate zeroth-order modified gravity effects.