Critical gravitational collapse of a perfect fluid: nonspherical perturbations

Abstract

Continuously self-similar (CSS) solutions for the gravitational collapse of a spherically symmetric perfect fluid, with the equation of state p=kappa rho, with 0<kappa<1 a constant, are constructed numerically and their linear perturbations, both spherical and nonspherical, are investigated. The l=1 axial perturbations admit an analytical treatment. All others are studied numerically. For intermediate equations of state, with 1/9<kappa<0.49, the CSS solution has one spherical growing mode, but no nonspherical growing modes. That suggests that it is a critical solution even in (slightly) nonspherical collapse. For this range of kappa we predict the critical exponent for the black hole angular momentum to be 5(1+3kappa)/3(1+kappa) times the critical exponent for the black hole mass. For kappa=1/3 this gives an angular momentum critical exponent of mu=0.898, correcting a previous result. For stiff equations of state, 0.49<kappa<1, the CSS solution has one spherical and several nonspherical growing modes. For soft equations of state, 0<kappa<1/9, the CSS solution has 1+3 growing modes: a spherical one, and an l=1 axial mode (with m=-1,0,1).

RevTex, 29 pages, 14 figures. Completely rewritten for resubmission to Phys. Rev. D

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