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Dynamical Gravastars

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2023-02-22 v7 Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We combine the ideas of a Weyl scaling invariant dark energy action, which eliminates black hole horizons, with the ``gravastar'' idea of a jump in the hole interior from a normal matter equation of state to an equation of state where pressure plus density approximately sum to zero. Using the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equation, which requires continuous pressure, we present Mathematica notebooks in which the structure of the gravastar is entirely governed by the action and the equation of state, with the radii where structural changes occur emerging from the dynamics, rather than being specified in advance. The notebooks work even with zero cosmological constant, but when the cosmological constant is nonzero, there is a very small black hole ``wind'' that we calculate by a relativistic extension of standard pressure driven isothermal stellar wind theory.

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@article{arxiv.2209.02537,
  title  = {Dynamical Gravastars},
  author = {Stephen L. Adler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.02537},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

25 pages 10 figures. See https://gitlab.com/stephenadler/Gravastar for the Mathematica notebooks. See arXiv:2301.11821 for further graphs. See https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/2820793 for a simplified and annotated notebook

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