Mass and radius of cosmic balloons

Dec 20, 1993
17 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 49 (1994) 5063-5067
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Report number:
  • FERMILAB-PUB-93-378-A-REV,
  • FERMILAB-PUB-93-378-A

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Abstract: (arXiv)
Cosmic balloons are spherical domain walls with relativistic particles trapped inside. They could be created in the early Universe and of much astrophysical interest. Here we find a transparent analytical approximation for the mass density of a spherically symmetric relativistic gas star. When applied to the computation of the mass and radius of a cosmic balloon, the analytical approximation yields fairly good agreement with the exact numerical solutions. The cosmic balloon mass as a function of its radius, M(R)M(R), is found to have a spiral behavior similar to that of fermion soliton stars, with a fixed point at 2GM(R)/R=1/22GM(R)/R=1/2, which corresponds to the limit of infinite central density.
Note:
  • Revised version
  • astrophysics
  • domain wall: mass
  • mass: domain wall
  • numerical calculations