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Upper mass limit for neutron star stability against black hole formation

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Starting from the exact general relativistic expression for the total energy of selfgravitating spherically distributed matter and using the minimum energy priciple, we calculate the upper mass limit for a neutron star to be 3.1 solar masses.

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  1. Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India

    V. Krishan

  2. Physics Dept, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

    N. Kumar

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Krishan, V., Kumar, N. Upper mass limit for neutron star stability against black hole formation. Astrophys Space Sci 57, 241–243 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00639060

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