  We have numerically solved the low-energy excitation spectra of ferromagnetic
Bose-Einstein condensates subject to dipolar interparticle interactions. The
system is assumed to be harmonically confined by purely optical means, thereby
maintaining the spin degree of freedom of the condensate order parameter. Using
a zero-temperature spin-1 model, we solve the Bogoliubov excitations for
different spin textures, including a spin-vortex state in the absence of
external magnetic fields and a rapidly rotating polarized spin texture in a
finite homogeneous field. In particular, we consider the effect of dipolar
interactions on excitations characteristic of ferromagnetic condensates. The
energies of spin waves and magnetic quadrupole modes are found to increase
rapidly with the dipolar coupling strength, whereas the energies of density
oscillations change only slightly.
