Critical phenomena in neutron stars. II: Head-on collisions

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/23/235016MaRDI QIDQ3066754zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thorsten Kellerman, Luciano Rezzolla, David Radice

Publication date 12 January 2011

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.2797, http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-2E82-4

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

Abstract: We consider the head-on collision of equal-mass neutron stars boosted towards each other and we study the behavior of such systems near the threshold of black-hole formation. In particular, we confirm the previous findings by [1] that a type-I critical phenomenon can be observed by fine-tuning the initial mass of the two neutron stars. At the same time, we argue against the interpretation that the critical solution is not a perturbed spherical star and show instead that the metastable star corresponds to a (perturbed) equilibrium solution on the unstable branch of the equilibrium configurations. As a result, the head-on collision of two neutron stars near the critical threshold can be seen as a transition in the space of configurations from an initial stable solution over to a critical metastable one which can either migrate to a stable solution or collapse to a black hole. The critical exponent for this process shows a fine structure which was already observed in the case of the critical collapse of scalar fields but never before for perfect fluids.

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• Critical phenomena in neutron stars: I. Linearly unstable nonrotating models
• Universality and properties of neutron star type I critical collapses
• COLLAPSING NEUTRON STARS DRIVEN BY CRITICAL MAGNETIC FIELDS AND EXPLODING BOSE–EINSTEIN CONDENSATES
• Dynamics of gravitational collapse in the axisymmetric Einstein-Vlasov system
• Dynamical boson stars
• Dynamical boson stars

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