Upper mass limit for neutron star stability against black hole formation

dc.contributor.author	Krishan, V
dc.contributor.author	Kumar, N
dc.date.accessioned	2008-12-16T14:29:56Z
dc.date.available	2008-12-16T14:29:56Z
dc.date.issued	1978-08
dc.identifier.citation	Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 241 - 243	en
dc.identifier.issn	1572-946X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/4078
dc.description	Open Access
dc.description.abstract	Starting from the exact general relativistic expression for the total energy of selfgravitating spherically distributed matter and using the minimum energy principle, we calculate the upper mass limit for a neutron star to be 3.1 solar masses.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	D.Reidel Publishing Co.,	en
dc.relation.uri	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978Ap%26SS..57..241K	en
dc.relation.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00639060	en
dc.rights	D.Reidel Publishing Co.,
dc.subject	Black Holes (Astronomy)	en
dc.subject	Dynamic Stability	en
dc.subject	Gravitational Collapse	en
dc.subject	Neutron Stars	en
dc.subject	Stellar Mass	en
dc.subject	Baryons	en
dc.subject	Relativity	en
dc.subject	Space-Time Functions	en
dc.title	Upper mass limit for neutron star stability against black hole formation	en
dc.type	Article	en