Critical collapse of ultrarelativistic fluids: Damping or growth of aspherical deformations
Critical collapse of ultrarelativistic fluids: Damping or growth of aspherical deformations
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevd.98.024053
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发表时间:
2018-05
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5
通讯作者:
Juliana Celestino;T. Baumgarte
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作者:
Juliana Celestino;T. Baumgarte
We perform fully nonlinear numerical simulations to study aspherical deformations of the critical self-similar solution in the gravitational collapse of ultrarelativistic fluids. Adopting a perturbative calculation, Gundlach predicted that these perturbations behave like damped or growing oscillations, with the frequency and damping (or growth) rates depending on the equation of state. We consider a number of different equations of state and degrees of asphericity and find very good agreement with the findings of Gundlach for polar $\ensuremath{\ell}=2$ modes. For sufficiently soft equations of state, the modes are damped, meaning that, in the limit of perfect fine-tuning, the spherically symmetric critical solution is recovered. We find that the degree of asphericity has at most a small effect on the frequency and damping parameter or on the critical exponents in the power-law scalings. Our findings also confirm, for the first time, Gundlach's prediction that the $\ensuremath{\ell}=2$ modes become unstable for sufficiently stiff equations of state. In this regime, the spherically symmetric self-similar solution can no longer be recovered by fine-tuning to the black-hole threshold, and one can no longer expect power-law scaling to hold to arbitrarily small scales.