Naked singularities and other features of self-similar general-relativistic gravitational collapse

Journal Article · Wed Aug 15 04:00:00 EDT 1990 · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.42.1068· OSTI ID:6413029

Ori, A; Piran, T ^[1]

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1. Racah Institute for Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904 (Israel)

Self-similar solutions are commonly used to describe Newtonian gravitational collapse. We examine, here, the structure of general-relativistic spherical collapse solutions for a perfect fluid with a barotropic equation of state. We find that these solutions are quite different from the homogeneous Oppenheimer-Snyder dust collapse solution on which our intuition is so heavily based. The most amazing feature that we find is the generic appearance of naked singularities in these solutions.

• OSTI ID: 6413029
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA), Journal Name: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA) Vol. 42:4; ISSN PRVDA; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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FIELD THEORIES
GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY
GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE
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