Open AccessTolman–Bayin type static charged fluid spheres in general relativity
Author(s) -
Ray Saibal,
Das Basanti
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058
H-Index - 383
eISSN - 1365-2966
pISSN - 0035-8711
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07602.x
Subject(s) - physics , classical mechanics , gravitation , general relativity , electromagnetic mass , einstein , stars , type (biology) , connection (principal bundle) , lorentz transformation , lorentz factor , theory of relativity , space (punctuation) , spacetime , astrophysics , quantum mechanics , geometry , ecology , biology , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics
In a static spherically symmetric Einstein–Maxwell space–time, the class of astrophysical solution found by Ray & Das and Pant & Sah are revisited here in connection to the phenomenological relationship between the gravitational and electromagnetic fields. It is qualitatively shown that the charged relativistic stars of Tolman and Bayin type are of purely electromagnetic origin. The existence of this type of astrophysical solutions is a probable extension of Lorentz's conjecture that an electron‐like extended charged particle possesses only ‘electromagnetic mass’ and no ‘material mass’.