Rotating relativistic stars have been studied extensively in recent years, both theoretically and observationally, because of the information they might yield about the equation of state of matter at extremely high densities and because they are considered to be promising sources of gravitational waves. The latest theoretical understanding of rotating stars in relativity is reviewed in this updated article. The sections on the equilibrium properties and on the nonaxisymmetric instabilities in f-modes and r-modes have been updated and several new sections have been added on analytic solutions for the exterior spacetime, rotating stars in LMXBs, rotating strange stars, and on rotating stars in numerical relativity. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL Supplementary material is available for this article at 10.12942/lrr-2003-3.

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相对论中的旋转恒星。

近年来，旋转相对论恒星在理论上和观测上得到了广泛的研究，因为它们可能产生关于极高密度下物质状态方程的信息，并且因为它们被认为是有希望的引力波源。这篇更新的文章回顾了相对论中旋转恒星的最新理论理解。关于 f 模和 r 模中的平衡性质和非轴对称不稳定性的部分已更新，并且添加了关于外部时空、LMXB 中的旋转星、旋转奇异星和旋转星的解析解的几个新部分在数值相对论中。电子补充材料 本文的补充材料可从 10.12942/lrr-2003-3 获取。