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Dissipative Collapse Through the Critical Point

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-31 v1 Astrophysics

Abstract

A relativistic model of a heat conducting collapsing star, which includes thermal pre-relaxation processes, is presented. Particular attention is paid to the influence of a given parameter defined in terms of thermodynamic variables, on the outcome of evolution. Evaluation of the system when passing through a critical value of the aforesaid parameter, does not yield evidence of anomalous behaviour.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9805036,
  title  = {Dissipative Collapse Through the Critical Point},
  author = {L. Herrera and J. Martinez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9805036},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

14 pages, 12 Postscript figures. Emtex 2.09 To appear in Astrophysics and Space Science