Non spherical sources of strong gravitational fields out of hydrostatic equilibrium

Abstract

We describe the departure from equilibrium of matter distributions representing sources for a class of Weyl metric. It is shown that, for extremely high gravitational fields, slight deviations from spherical symmetry may enhance the stability of the system weakening thereby its tendency to a catastrophic collapse. For critical values of surface gravitational potential, in contrast with the exactly spherically symmetric case, the speed of entering the collapse regime decreases substantially, at least for specific cases.

26 pages Latex, a shortened version to appear in Astr.Space.Sci

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