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Weak cosmic censorship in gravitational collapse with astrophysical parameter values

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2013-05-24 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

The possible violation of the weak cosmic censorship hypothesis in astrophysical phenomena can provide us with the information about trans-Planckian physics through observations. We present negative evidence, however, that one should not expect such a possibility at least when the deviation from spherical symmetry is negligible and the parameter values of collapse are astrophysically reasonable. Taking the Lema\^itre-Tolman-Bondi solution as the model most likely to counter the weak hypothesis, we show that the mass (1.5M \gtrsim 1.5 M_\odot ) and density (1.5×1015  g/cm3 \gtrsim 1.5 \times 10^{15} \; {\rm g/cm^3}) of the collapsing object produce a gravitational field strong enough to capture any null rays soon after emanating from the singularity.

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@article{arxiv.1108.0248,
  title  = {Weak cosmic censorship in gravitational collapse with astrophysical parameter values},
  author = {Umpei Miyamoto and Sanjay Jhingan and Tomohiro Harada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.0248},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

10 pages, 2 figures, 1 table; v2: title changed, to appear in Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics