Tolman-Bayin type static charged fluid spheres in general relativity
Astrophysics
2009-11-10 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
In a static spherically symmetric Einstein-Maxwell spacetime the class of astrophysical solution found out by Ray and Das (2002) and Pant and Sah (1979) are revisited here in connection to the phenomenological relationship between the gravitational and electromagnetic fields. It is qualitatively shown that the charged relativistic stars of Tolman (1939) and Bayin (1978) type are of purely electromagnetic origin. The existence of this type of astrophysical solutions is a probable extension of Lorentz's conjecture that electron-like extended charged particle possesses only `electromagnetic mass' and no `material mass'.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0401005,
title = {Tolman-Bayin type static charged fluid spheres in general relativity},
author = {Saibal Ray and Basanti Das},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0401005},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in the MNRAS