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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2016
The reduction of the ratio between specific angular momentum and mass (a/m) due to gravitational radiation has been investigated for a model of collapsing rotating stellar core in a post-newtonian scheme. Results show that if the initial value of the ratio is significantly greater than one, it tends towards one and if the initial ratio is nearly one, no sharp reduction happens as the core collapses to the neutron star or black hole size.