Rotating Relativistic Stars:

• Equilibrium models with various equations of state, incl. strange stars
• Pulsations and stability
• Equilibrium and pulsations of strongly magnetized stars
• Gravitational wave emission
• Secular spin-down of pulsars

• Numerical evolution of rotating and pulsating stars
• Nonlinear simulations of sources of gravitational waves
• Astrophysical implications of the CFS instability

• Spin.gr news article (2002)  (in Greek)
• Nature news article (2001) [pdf]
• National Astronomical Organization of Japan News (2001) (in Japanese :)
• Max-Planck-Society press release (1999) (in German)

• European Astronomical Society NewsletterIssue 22 (2001)
• Matters of Gravity vol. 20 (2002)
• Matters of Gravity vol. 17 (2001)
• Matters of Gravity vol. 16 (2000)
• Matters of Gravity vol. 12 (1998)
• Matters of Gravity vol. 7 (1996)
• Matters of Gravity vol. 5 (1995)

Movies:

     1. Nonlinear r-Modes in Rotating Relativistic Stars

Evolution of the axial velocity in the equatorial plane  [mpg]

Evolution of the rotational velocity in the xz-plane  [mpg]
 
 

    2.  Long-Term Simulations of Single Relativistic Stars
     Visualization by Werner Benger and Luciano Rezzolla (Mpg and Quicktime format at AEI)

      Avi format (requires the DivX codec) :

      a) Nonlinear Radial Pulsation of Migrating Star

3D volume rendering of density and internal energy(1.3 Mb avi)

2D slices of density and internal energy  (0.24 Mb avi)
 

      b) Rapidly Rotating Relativistic Star

3D volume rendering of density   (1.8Mb avi)

3D volume rendering of x-component of velocity (7.0Mb avi)