English

Relativistic gravitational collapse in non-comoving coordinates: The post-quasistatic approximation

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-07 v1 Astrophysics

Abstract

A general, iterative, method for the description of evolving self-gravitating relativistic spheres is presented. Modeling is achieved by the introduction of an ansatz, whose rationale becomes intelligible and finds full justification within the context of a suitable definition of the post--quasistatic approximation. As examples of application of the method we discuss three models, in the adiabatic case.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0202051,
  title  = {Relativistic gravitational collapse in non-comoving coordinates: The post-quasistatic approximation},
  author = {L. Herrera and W. Barreto and A. Di Prisco and N. O. Santos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0202051},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

23 pages Latex, plus 12 ps. figures. To appear in Phys.Rev.D