Collapse and expansion of plane symmetric charged anisotropic source

Abstract

In this paper, we have investigated the final evolutionary stages of charged non-static plane symmetric anisotropic source. To this end, we have solved the Einstein–Maxwell field equations with the charged plane symmetric source. We have found that vanishing of radial heat flux in the gravitating source provides the parametric form of the metric functions. The new form of the metric functions can generate a class of physically acceptable solutions depending on the choice parameter. These solutions may be classified as expanding or collapsing solutions with the particular values of generating parameter. The gravitational collapse in this case ends with the formation of single apparent horizon while there exists two such horizons in the case of charged spherical anisotropic source.