Quasiblack holes from extremal charged dust

Nov, 2003
18 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 69 (2004) 104004
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Report number:
  • CU-TP-1093,
  • DF-IST-11-2003

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Abstract: (arXiv)
One can construct families of static solutions that can be viewed as interpolating between nonsingular spacetimes and those containing black holes. Although everywhere nonsingular, these solutions come arbitrarily close to having a horizon. To an observer in the exterior region, it becomes increasingly difficulty to distinguish these from a true black hole as the critical limiting solution is approached. In this paper we use the Majumdar-Papapetrou formalism to construct such quasi-black hole solutions from extremal charged dust. We study the gravitational properties of these solutions, comparing them with the the quasi-black hole solutions based on magnetic monopoles. As in the latter case, we find that solutions can be constructed with or without hair.
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