Time-varying Lense Thirring system

dc.contributor.author	Chicone, Carmen Charles	eng
dc.contributor.author	Mashhoon, Bahram	eng
dc.date.issued	2008	eng
dc.description	doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/25/22/225003	eng
dc.description.abstract	We consider bound geodesic orbits of test masses in the exterior gravitational field of a rotating astronomical source whose proper angular momentum varies linearly with time. The linear perturbation approach of Lense and Thirring is herein extended to the nonstationary case. In particular, we investigate the instability of Lense-Thirring precessing orbits due to the slow temporal variation of the gravitomagnetic field of the source.	eng
dc.description.sponsorship	CC was supported in part by the grant NSF/DMS-0604331.	eng
dc.identifier.citation	C Chicone and B Mashhoon 2008 Class. Quantum Grav. 25 225003	eng
dc.identifier.issn	0264-9381	eng
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10355/8247	eng
dc.language	English	eng
dc.publisher	Institute of Physics	eng
dc.relation.ispartofcollection	University of Missouri--Columbia. College of Arts and Sciences. Department of Physics and Astronomy. Physics and Astronomy publications	eng
dc.subject	exact solutions	eng
dc.subject.lcsh	General relativity (Physics)	eng
dc.subject.lcsh	Celestial mechanics	eng
dc.subject.lcsh	Orbit determination	eng
dc.subject.lcsh	Equations of motion	eng
dc.subject.lcsh	Astrophysics	eng
dc.title	Time-varying Lense Thirring system	eng
dc.type	Article	eng

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