COLLAPSING INHOMOGENEOUS DUST IN THE BACKGROUND OF PERFECT (OR ANISOTROPIC) FLUID

Abstract

In this work, the gravitational collapse of an inhomogeneous spherical star model, consisting of inhomogeneous dust in the background of perfect fluid or anisotropic fluid, is considered. The process of collapse is first examined separately for the dust and perfect fluid, and then under their combined effect, with or without interaction, for both marginally and nonmarginally bound cases. Finally, collapsing matter in the form of anisotropic fluid is investigated and it is found to be similar to that in the study by Chakraborty et al. (2005).