GRAVITATIONAL WAVE EMISSION FROM ROTATING GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE

1985
4 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 55 (1985) 891-894,
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 56 (1986) 97 (erratum)

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Abstract: (APS)
We present results for the gravitational radiation from the collapse to a black hole of rotating relativistic polytropes. The wave form closely resembles that emitted by a test particle infalling into a black hole, but the amplitude is reduced and opposite in sign. Less than 0.07% of the star's mass is converted to gravitational-wave energy. With sufficient rotation, the star bounces and no black hole forms. These results were obtained with a fully general-relativistic computer code that evolves rotating axisymmetric configurations and directly computes their gravitational-radiation emission.
  • ASTROPHYSICS
  • GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION
  • general relativity
  • NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS