On the formation of degenerate heavy neutrino stars

2001/06/30 by Neven Bilić, Neven Bilic, Robert J. Lindebaum +2 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0370-2693(01)00836-x

published as Phys.Lett. B515 (2001) 105-110 · 11 pages, 3 figures, Latex, elsart.sty, fig1 improved, to appear in Phys. Lett. B

arxiv created 2001/07/10 · openalex publication_date 2001/08/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The dynamics of a self-gravitating cold Fermi gas is described using the analogy with an interacting self-gravitating Bose condensate having the same Thomas-Fermi limit. The dissipationless formation of a heavy neutrino star through gravitational collapse and ejection of matter is demonstrated numerically. Such neutrino stars offer an alternative to black holes for the supermassive compact dark objects at the centers of galaxies.

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