On critical collapse of gravitational waves

Details On critical collapse of gravitational waves On critical collapse of gravitational waves

2010-08-19

arxiv.org/abs/1008.3319v2

Class.Quant.Grav.28:025011,2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

14 pp, 7 figs. v2: added details about the accumulation loci and error-estimates; to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/28/2/025011

An axisymmetric collapse of non-rotating gravitational waves is numerically investigated in the subcritical regime where no black holes form but where curvature attains a maximum and decreases, following the dispersion of the initial wave packet. We focus on a curvature invariant with dimensions of length, and find that near the threshold for black hole formation it reaches a maximum along concentric rings of finite radius around the axis. In this regime the maximal value of the invariant exhibits a power-law scaling with the approximate exponent 0.38, as a function of a parametric distance from the threshold. In addition, the variation of the curvature in the critical limit is accompanied by increasing amount of echos, with nearly equal temporal and spatial periods. The scaling and the echoing patterns, and the corresponding constants, are independent of the initial data and coordinate choices.

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