Quadrupolar gravitational fields described by the q-metric

Authors

  • Hernando Quevedo
  • Saken Toktarbay
  • Yerlan Aimuratov

Keywords:

Quadrupole moment, naked singularities, q-metric.

Abstract

We investigate the Zipoy-Voorhees metric ( q - metric) as the simplest static, axially symmetric solution of Einstein’s vacuum field equations that possesses as independent parameters the mass and the quadrupole moment. In accordance with the black holes uniqueness theorems, the presence of the quadrupole completely changes the geometric properties of the corresponding spacetime that turns out to contain naked singularities for all possible values of the quadrupole parameter. The naked singularities, however, can be covered by interior solutions that correspond to perfect fluid sources with no specific equations of state. We conclude that the q - metric can be used to describe the entire spacetime generated by static deformed compact objects.

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Quevedo, H., Toktarbay, S., & Aimuratov, Y. (2012). Quadrupolar gravitational fields described by the q-metric. International Journal of Mathematics and Physics, 3(2), 133–139. Retrieved from https://ijmph.kaznu.kz/index.php/kaznu/article/view/56

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Theoretical Physics and Plasma Physics