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Ghost Stars in General Relativity
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: Received: 12 April 2024 / Approved: 15 April 2024 / Online: 15 April 2024 (09:39:07 CEST)
How to cite: Herrera, L.; Di Prisco, A.; Ospino, J. Ghost Stars in General Relativity. Preprints 2024, 2024040895. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0895.v1 Herrera, L.; Di Prisco, A.; Ospino, J. Ghost Stars in General Relativity. Preprints 2024, 2024040895. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0895.v1
Abstract
We explore an idea put forward many years ago by Zeldovich and Novikov concerning the existence of compact objects endowed with arbitrarily small mass. The energy-density of such objects, which we call “Ghost stars”, is negative in some regions of the fluid distribution, producing a vanishing total mass. Thus, the interior is matched on the boundary surface to Minkowski space-time. Some exact analytical solutions are exhibited and their properties are analyzed. Observational data that could confirm or dismiss the existence of this kind of stellar object, is commented.
Keywords
relativistic fluids; interior solutions; spherically symmetric sources
Subject
Physical Sciences, Theoretical Physics
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