Frequency shifts and line broadening of radiation from rotating neutron stars

dc.contributor.author	Kapoor, R. C
dc.contributor.author	Datta, B
dc.date.accessioned	2008-09-23T11:04:57Z
dc.date.available	2008-09-23T11:04:57Z
dc.date.issued	1984-08
dc.identifier.citation	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 209, No. 4, pp. 895 - 904	en
dc.identifier.issn	0035-8711
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/3810
dc.description.abstract	The frequency shifts and line broadening of radiation from the surface of rapidly rotating neutron stars are calculated using a rotationally perturbed interior spherical metric and a representative choice of the equation of state for neutron star matter. The effect of rotation on the surface redshift and Doppler broadening are found to be substantial for rotation close to the secular instability limit, relevant for fast pulsars. If gamma-ray line emission originates from the surface of such pulsars, the results presented here can be used to constrain the validity of the equation of state of matter at high densities.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	The Royal Astronomical Society	en
dc.relation.uri	http://ads.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/abs/1984MNRAS.209..895K	en
dc.subject	Neutron Stars	en
dc.subject	Red Shift	en
dc.subject	Spectral Line Width	en
dc.subject	Stellar Rotation	en
dc.subject	Stellar Spectra	en
dc.subject	Equations Of State	en
dc.subject	Doppler Effect	en
dc.subject	Gamma Ray Astronomy	en
dc.subject	Pulsars	en
dc.subject	Stellar Models	en
dc.title	Frequency shifts and line broadening of radiation from rotating neutron stars	en
dc.type	Article	en