Universality in axisymmetric vacuum collapse

1994
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 49 (1994) 3998-4003

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Abstract: (APS)
Evidence of universality is observed in the critical behavior of axisymmetric vacuum gravitational collapse. The threshold of black hole formation in the future development of time-antisymmetric initial data is found numerically and compared to previous results based on ingoing pulses of gravitational waves. The power-law behavior of the black hole mass is again found near the critical point and the critical exponent value β≃0.36 is consistent with our previous determination despite stark differences in the two sets of initial data. Similar evidence of universality is exhibited by the scaling factor Δ of the echoes in the gravitational field produced in the central region of collapse.
  • gravitation
  • black hole
  • vacuum state
  • symmetry: axial
  • critical phenomena
  • universality
  • numerical calculations