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Gravitational Collapse of a Radiating Shell

G. L. Alberghi, R. Casadio, G. P. Vacca, G. Venturi

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0102014

Abstract

We study the collapse of a self-gravitating and radiating shell. Matter constituting the shell is quantized and the construction is viewed as a semiclassical model of possible black hole formation. It is shown that the shell internal degrees of freedom are excited by the quantum non-adiabaticity of the collapse and, consequently, on coupling them to a massless scalar field, the collapsing matter emits a burst of coherent (thermal) radiation.

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