Stability of relativistic stars and black holes.
Abstract
Relativistic stability theory is reviewed, with an emphasis on work done over the last decade. Instabilities of uniformly rotating stars are of two types: instability to axisymmetric perturbations, which can be diagnosed by a turning point method; and instability to non-axisymmetric perturbations, which requires a more detailed knowledge of the normal modes of viscous stars. Black holes are almost certainly stable, and recent work by Whiting appears to prove that there are no unstable normal modes.
- Publication:
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Gravitation and Cosmology
- Pub Date:
- 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988grco.conf..361F
- Keywords:
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- Black Holes: Stability;
- Relativistic Stars: Stability