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

Journal Article · · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (USA)
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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), Vol. 42:4; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English