Quasi-spherical solution with heat flux and non-adiabatic collapse of radiating star (Q1770113)

Gravitational collapse in Einstein gravity leading to the formation of compact objects (white dwarfs, neutron stars) begins with a period of radiative collapse. Most theoretical investigations have supposed the collapsing body to be spherical, which is astrophysically not realistic. In this work the interior region of space-time is assumed to be a quasi-spherical Szekeres model with non-viscous heat conducting fluid-matter, while the exterior region is modeled by a plane-symmetric Vaidya solution. A careful study of the heat flux in the interior and the junction conditions as well as the thermodynamical relations shows that radiation on the boundary is possible even if the pressure is non-vanishing there.