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In this paper, we discuss gravitational collapse of spherically symmetric spacetimes. We derive a general formalism by taking two arbitrary spherically symmetric spacetimes with $g_{00}=1$. Israel's junction conditions are used to develop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-22 M. Sharif , Khadija Iqbal

A gravity theory called scalar-tensor-vector gravity (STVG) has been recently developed and succeeded in solar system, astrophysical and cosmological scales without dark matter [J. W. Moffat, J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 03, 004 (2006)].…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-02 Xue-Mei Deng , Yi Xie , Tian-Yi Huang

In this work, we study the junction conditions of the ghost-free subclass of quadratic Poincar\'e Gauge gravity, which propagates one scalar and one pseudo-scalar. For this purpose, we revisit the theory of distributions and junction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Adrián Casado-Turrión , Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Alejandro Jiménez-Cano , Francisco José Maldonado Torralba

The field equations for Scalar-Tensor-Vector-Gravity (STVG) or modified gravity (MOG) have a static, spherically symmetric black hole solution determined by the mass $M$ with two horizons. The strength of the gravitational constant is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-05 J. W. Moffat

Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed the presence of bright and well-formed galaxies at high redshifts, challenging the predictions of the standard Lambda-Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) cosmological model.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-05 J. W. Moffat

Scalar Tensor Vector Gravity(STVG) is a fully covariant Lorentz invariant alternative theory of gravity also called as MOdified Gravity(MOG) which modifies General Relativity(GR) with dynamical massive vector field and scalar fields. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Sreekanth Harikumar , Marek Biesiada

I present the junction conditions for F(R) theories of gravity and their implications: the generalized Israel conditions and equations. These junction conditions are necessary to construct global models of stars, galaxies, etc., where a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-11 José M. M. Senovilla

Scalar Tensor Vector Gravity (STVG) is an alternative theory of gravitation that has successfully explained the rotation curves of nearby galaxies, the dynamics of galactic clusters, and cosmological data without dark matter, but has hardly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Daniela Pérez , Federico G. Lopez Armengol , Gustavo E. Romero

This paper provides an extended exploration of the inverse-chirp gravitational-wave signals from stellar collapse in massive scalar-tensor gravity reported in [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 119}, 201103]. We systematically explore the parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-16 Roxana Rosca-Mead , Ulrich Sperhake , Christopher J. Moore , Michalis Agathos , Davide Gerosa , Christian D. Ott

We utilize a recent formulation of a spherically symmetric spacetime endowed with a general decomposition of the energy momentum tensor [Phys. Rev. D, 75, 024031 (2007)] to derive equations governing spherically symmetric distributions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Paul Lasky , Anthony Lun

There is a viable vector-tensor gravity (VTG) theory, whose vector field produces repulsive forces leading to important effects. In the background universe, the effect of these forces is an accelerated expansion identical to that produced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-01 R. Dale , D. Sáez

As an alternative to the LCDM concordance model, Scalar-Tensor-Vector Modified Gravity (MOG) theory reproduces key cosmological observations without postulating the presence of an exotic dark matter component. MOG is a field theory based on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Viktor T. Toth

In order to study the gravitational collapse of charged matter we analyze the simple model of an self-gravitating massless scalar field coupled to the electromagnetic field in spherical symmetry. The evolution equations for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-07 Jose M. Torres , Miguel Alcubierre

The generalized hybrid metric-Palatini gravity is a theory of gravitation that has an action composed of a Lagrangian $f(R,\cal R)$, where $f$ is a function of the metric Ricci scalar $R$ and a new Ricci scalar $\cal R$ formed from a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-07 João Luís Rosa , José P. S. Lemos

Complete tensor-scalar and hydrodynamic equations are presented and integrated, for a self-gravitating perfect fluid. The initial conditions describe unstable-equilibrium neutron star configuration, with a polytropic equation of state. They…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Novak

We show that Scalar-Tensor-Vector Gravity (STVG-MOG) is observationally equivalent to the standard model $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model for all probes that depend on isotropic and linear gravitational dynamics, including galaxy rotation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 John W. Moffat

Gravitational collapse and bubble evolution in the asymptotical Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) Universe is an intriguing and intricate problem. We systematically analyze dynamics for contact \sch-FLRW (McVittie) spacetimes,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Jining Tang , Yang Huang , Hongsheng Zhang

In the former part, we study the gravitational collapse of pressureless dust and find special solutions, where, in both the physical and fiducial sectors, the exterior and interior spacetime geometries are given by the Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-31 Masato Minamitsuji , Antonio De Felice , Shinji Mukohyama , Michele Oliosi

We study the problem of the gravitational collapse of an object as seen by an external observer. We assume that the resultant spacetime is a match of an external Vaidya spacetime with an interior Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FRLW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-27 Eduardo Bittencourt , Alan G. Cesar , Jonas P. Pereira

This paper is about the $n+2$-dimensional gravitational contraction of inhomogeneous fluid without heat flux in the framework of $f(R)$ metric theory of gravity. Matching conditions for two regions of a star has been derived by using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-02 G. Abbas , M. S. Khan , Zahid Ahmad , M. Zubair