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LETTER: Generalized Vaidya Solutions

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A large family of solutions, representing, ingeneral, spherically symmetric Type II fluid, ispresented, which includes most of the known solutions tothe Einstein field equations, such as, the monopole-de Sitter-charged Vaidya ones.

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Wang, A., Wu, Y. LETTER: Generalized Vaidya Solutions. General Relativity and Gravitation 31, 107–114 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018819521971

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