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Global Textures and The Formation of Self-Bound Gravitational Systems

Astrophysics 2009-10-31 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Using a Newtonian approximation, we developed a quantitative criterion for the collapse of a spherical distribution of matter under an isolated texture field. In particular, we found that the evolution of an overdense region is strongly determined by two parameters: the energy scale of symmetry breaking and the initial radius of the system.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9906172,
  title  = {Global Textures and The Formation of Self-Bound Gravitational Systems},
  author = {A. L. B. Ribeiro and P. S. Letelier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9906172},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures, to be published in MNRAS