Abstract
It is well known that the late-time behavior of gravitational collapse is dominated by an inverse power-law decaying tail. We calculate higher-order corrections to this power-law behavior in a spherically symmetric gravitational collapse. The dominant “contamination” is shown to die off at late times as This decay rate is much slower than has been considered so far. It implies, for instance, that an “exact” (numerical) determination of the power index to within 1% requires extremely long integration times of the order of We show that the leading order fingerprint of the black-hole electric charge is of the order of
- Received 1 June 1999
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.60.104053
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