%0 Journal Article
%T Gravitational Collapse of a Radiating Shell
%A G. L. Alberghi
%A R. Casadio
%A G. P. Vacca
%A G. Venturi
%J Physics
%D 2001
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevD.64.104012
%X We study the collapse of a self-gravitating and radiating shell. Matter constituting the shell is quantized and the construction is viewed as a semiclassical model of possible black hole formation. It is shown that the shell internal degrees of freedom are excited by the quantum non-adiabaticity of the collapse and, consequently, on coupling them to a massless scalar field, the collapsing matter emits a burst of coherent (thermal) radiation.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0102014v2