Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2007-01-24
Astrophys.J.663:450-460,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
25 pages, 9 figures
Scientific paper
10.1086/518412
We discuss head-on collisions of neutron stars and disks of dust ("galaxies") following the ideas of equilibrium thermodynamics, which compares equilibrium states and avoids the description of the dynamical transition processes between them. As an always present damping mechanism, gravitational emission results in final equilibrium states after the collision. In this paper we calculate selected final configurations from initial data of colliding stars and disks by making use of conservation laws and solving the Einstein equations. Comparing initial and final states, we can decide for which initial parameters two colliding neutron stars (non-rotating Fermi gas models) merge into a single neutron star and two rigidly rotating disks form again a final (differentially rotating) disk of dust. For the neutron star collision we find a maximal energy loss due to outgoing gravitational radiation of 2.3% of the initial mass while the corresponding efficiency for colliding disks has the much larger limit of 23.8%.
Ansorg Marcus
Hennig Jörg
Neugebauer Gernot
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