Collisions of rigidly rotating disks of dust in General Relativity
arXiv:gr-qc/0606031 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.74.064025
Abstract
We discuss inelastic collisions of two rotating disks by using the conservation laws for baryonic mass and angular momentum. In particular, we formulate conditions for the formation of a new disk after the collision and calculate the total energy loss to obtain upper limits for the emitted gravitational energy.
30 pages, 9 figures