13–18 Dec 2015
International Conference Centre Geneva
Europe/Zurich timezone

Black hole mimickers

17 Dec 2015, 17:35
20m
Level 2, Room 14 (International Conference Centre Geneva)

Level 2, Room 14

International Conference Centre Geneva

17 Rue de Varembé, 1211 Geneva

Speaker

Mrs Daniela Perez (Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia)

Description

We show that a spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of a star can result in a bounce if the equation of state behaves with sufficient rigidity just before the formation of an event horizon. The relativistic time dilation produced by the strong gravity makes the whole process to be undistinguishable from a black hole on timescales shorter than the Hubble time for a distant observer. We solve the Misner-Sharp equations for stellar collapse with a suitable equation of state that reduces to a polytropic at low densities and mimicks an effective cosmological constant during the collapse, finally inverting the direction of the velocity field of the fluid. We also present some preliminary results of numerical simulations of these objects. We conclude that evolving gravitational systems might mimick, in this way, most of the properties attributed to static black holes.

Primary author

Mrs Daniela Perez (Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia)

Co-authors

Dr Eric Gourgoulhon (Observatorie de Paris) Mr Federico Gaston Lopez Armengol (Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia) Dr Gustavo Esteban Romero (Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia) Dr Jerome Novak (Observatorie de Paris)

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