Abstract
We present results for the gravitational radiation from the collapse to a black hole of rotating relativistic polytropes. The wave form closely resembles that emitted by a test particle infalling into a black hole, but the amplitude is reduced and opposite in sign. Less than 0.07% of the star's mass is converted to gravitational-wave energy. With sufficient rotation, the star bounces and no black hole forms. These results were obtained with a fully general-relativistic computer code that evolves rotating axisymmetric configurations and directly computes their gravitational-radiation emission.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 891-894 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue number | 8 |
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| State | Published - 1985 |