Precursory collapse in Neutron Star-Black Hole mergers

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Precursory collapse in Neutron Star-Black Hole mergers
المؤلفون: Emparan, Roberto, Marin, Daniel
المصدر: Phys. Rev. D 102, 024009 (2020)
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
مصطلحات موضوعية: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, High Energy Physics - Theory
الوصف: We investigate the properties of the event horizon in the merger between a large black hole and a smaller neutron star. We find that, if the star is compact enough, then, in its rest frame a horizon begins to grow inside the star before it merges with the black hole, in a manner analogous to the growth of the event horizon in stellar collapse. We may say that, ahead of its fall into the larger black hole, the neutron star begins to become a black hole itself. We discuss how the phenomenon, even if not directly observable, can be invariantly characterized. We demonstrate it quantitatively by explicitly constructing the merger event horizon in the extreme-mass-ratio limit. We show that the effect is present for realistic neutron star models and admissible values of the compactness.
Comment: 13 pages, 16 figures. v2: minor clarifications and added references. Matches published version
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.024009
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.08143
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2004.08143
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.024009