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中子星II:Head-on Collisions中的临界现象

Critical Phenomena in Neutron Stars II: Head-on Collisions

Thorsten Kellermann, Luciano Rezzolla, David Radice

摘要:

我们考虑等质量中子星的迎头碰撞,并研究了这种系统在黑洞形成阈值附近的行为。特别地,我们证实了文献[1]的发现,即通过微调两颗中子星的初始质量,可以观察到I型临界现象。与此同时,我们反对的解释,即临界解不是一个扰动的球形恒星,而是表明,亚稳星对应于(扰动)平衡解的不稳定分支的平衡配置。因此,两颗中子星在临界阈值附近的迎头碰撞可以看作是从初始稳定解到临界亚稳解的位形空间的一个过渡,该临界亚稳解可以迁移到稳定解,也可以坍缩成黑洞。这个过程的临界指数显示了一个精细的结构,这是已经观察到的情况下的临界崩溃的标量场,但从来没有完美的流体。

英文摘要:

We consider the head-on collision of equal-mass neutron stars boosted towards each other and we study the behavior of such systems near the threshold of black-hole formation. In particular, we confirm the previous findings by [1] that a type-I critical phenomenon can be observed by fine-tuning the initial mass of the two neutron stars. At the same time, we argue against the interpretation that the critical solution is not a perturbed spherical star and show instead that the metastable star corresponds to a (perturbed) equilibrium solution on the unstable branch of the equilibrium configurations. As a result, the head-on collision of two neutron stars near the critical threshold can be seen as a transition in the space of configurations from an initial stable solution over to a critical metastable one which can either migrate to a stable solution or collapse to a black hole. The critical exponent for this process shows a fine structure which was already observed in the case of the critical collapse of scalar fields but never before for perfect fluids.

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