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Title: Upper mass limit for neutron star stability against black hole formation
Authors: Krishan, V
Kumar, N
Keywords: Black Holes (Astronomy)
Dynamic Stability
Gravitational Collapse
Neutron Stars
Stellar Mass
Baryons
Relativity
Space-Time Functions
Issue Date: Aug-1978
Publisher: D.Reidel Publishing Co.,
Citation: Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 241 - 243
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.
Description: Open Access
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2248/4078
ISSN: 1572-946X
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