The escape of light from within a massive object
Abstract
An analysis is made of the escape of light from within spherically symmetric gravitational masses. It is found that there exist models where a portion of the light emitted inside a star does not escape past the surface; rather, only light within a certain, variable `escape cone' leaves the star. This ` escape cone does not steadily shrink with decreasing radius of emission, unlike the somewhat analogous cone effect for light in an external spherically syinmetric field.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- 1970
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/149.4.395
- Bibcode:
- 1970MNRAS.149..395J