Exploring GR effects in Newtonian physics

Włodek Kluźniak

Bohdan Paczyński pioneered pseudo-Newtonian calculations that captured essential qualitative effects of general relativity in accretion disk theory. After reviewing the historical successes of this approach, I will discuss analogues of general-relativistic effects which are present in the strictly Newtonian physics of orbital motion around Maclaurin spheroids. Oscillations modes of accretion disks that are familiar from relativistic diskoseismology seem to be present also in strictly Newtonian physics.

Proceedings of the Polish Astronomical Society, vol. 1, 21-26 (2014)

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