Charged gravastars admitting conformal motion
Abstract
We propose a new model of a {\it gravastar} admitting conformal motion. While retaining the framework of the Mazur-Mottola model, the gravastar is assumed to be internally charged, with an exterior defined by a Reissner-Nordstr{\"o}m rather than a Schwarzschild line element. The solutions obtained involve (i) the interior region, (ii) the shell, and (iii) the exterior region of the sphere. Of these three cases the first case is of primary interest since the total gravitational mass vanishes for vanishing charge and turns the total gravitational mass into an {\it electromagnetic mass} under certain conditions. This suggests that the interior de Sitter vacuum of a charged gravastar is essentially an electromagnetic mass model that must generate the gravitational mass. We have also analyzed various other aspects such as the stress energy tensor in the thin shell and the entropy of the system.
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@article{arxiv.1012.5605,
title = {Charged gravastars admitting conformal motion},
author = {A A Usmani and Farook Rahaman and Saibal Ray and K K Nandi and Peter K. F. Kuhfittig and Sk. A Rakib and Z Hasan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.5605},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
Minor addition, Accepted in Phys. Lett. B