Universality of Curvature Invariants in Critical Vacuum Gravitational Collapse

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Universality of Curvature Invariants in Critical Vacuum Gravitational Collapse

Ledvinka, T.; Khirno, A.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127(1), 5 (2021)

Abstract

We report on a numerical study of gravitational waves undergoing gravitational collapse due to their self-interaction. We consider several families of asymptotically flat initial data which, similar to the well-known Choptuik's discovery, can be fine-tuned between dispersal into empty space and collapse into a black hole. We find that near-critical spacetimes exhibit behavior similar to scalar-field collapse: For different families of initial data, we observe universal "echoes" in the form of irregularly repeating, approximate, scaled copies of the same piece of spacetime.

Institute authors

Ledvinka, Tomáš

Supported by

GACR 21-11268S — Mass and charge currents in general relativity and astrophysics
GAUK1176217 — Numerické metody analýzy a vizualizace černoděrových prostoročasů

BibTeX

@article{UTF940,
  author        = {Ledvinka, T. and Khirno, A.},
  title         = {{Universality of Curvature Invariants in Critical Vacuum Gravitational Collapse}},
  journal       = {Phys. Rev. Lett.},
  volume        = {127},
  number        = {1},
  pages         = {5},
  year          = {2021},
  month         = {7},
  doi           = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.011104},
}