Physical Review Letters · 1995 · 184 citations · 4 references
Natural SciencesAstronomyPhysicsAstrophysicsGravitationRelativityEinstein Field EquationsGeneral RelativityNewtonian GravitationRelativistic AstrophysicsSpecial RelativityDisk RotationGeneral Relativistic CosmologyGeneral Relativistic Gravitational FieldMass Density DistributionRelativistic Gravitational Potential
In a recent paper we presented analytic expressions for the axis potential, the disk metric, and the surface mass density of the global solution to Einstein's field equations describing a rigidly rotating disk of dust. Here we add the complete solution in terms of ultraelliptic functions and quadratures.
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Relativistic Disks. I. Uniform Rotation
J. Bardeen, Robert V. Wagoner · The Astrophysical Journal · 1971 · 188 citations
Uniformly Rotating Disks in General Relativity
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