Non-axisymmetric instability and fragmentation of general relativistic quasi-toroidal stars

Details Non-axisymmetric instability and fragmentation of general relativistic quasi-toroidal stars Non-axisymmetric instability and fragmentation of general relativistic quasi-toroidal stars

2006-11-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611601v1

Phys.Rev.D76:024019,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

30 pages, 36 figures. A version with high-resolution color figures can be found at http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~bzink/material/qts_

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.76.024019

In a recent publication, we have demonstrated that differentially rotating stars admit new channels of black hole formation via fragmentation instabilities. Since a higher order instability of this kind could potentially transform a differentially rotating supermassive star into a multiple black hole system embedded in a massive accretion disk, we investigate the dependence of the instability on parameters of the equilibrium model. We find that many of the models constructed exhibit non-axisymmetric instabilities with corotation points, even for low values of T/|W|, which lead to a fission of the stars into one, two or three fragments, depending on the initial perturbation. At least in the models selected here, an m=1 mode becomes unstable at lower values of T/|W|, which would seem to favor a scenario where one black hole with a massive accretion disk forms. In this case, we have gained evidence that low values of compactness of the initial model can lead to a stabilization of the resulting fragment, thus preventing black hole formation in this scenario.

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