Charged anisotropic spherical collapse with heat flow

• Main Authors: Kali Charan, Om Prakash Yadav, B. C. Tewari
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2021-01-01
• Series: European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-08865-8

Abstract In this article, we study the shear-free gravitational collapse of a charged radiating star. The Einstein field equations of gravitational collapse for the charged stars are known to give rise to a high degree of non-linearity in the ordinary differential equation coming from junction conditions. The attempts to solve it analytically proved to be unfortunate. Numerical methods have been suggested in the past. However, the high degree of non-linearity tends to introduce fluctuations and large round off errors in the numerical calculation. A new ansatz is proposed in the present work to reduce the degree of non-linearity. An ordinary differential equation is derived by satisfying junction conditions, and its numerical solution is demonstrated. Physical quantities associated with the collapse process are plotted to observe the effect of charge on these quantities. It is concluded that the charge can delay the collapse of a star and can even prevent it depending upon the amount of charge. It is also verified that the solution satisfies all the energy conditions.