Abstract
In the context of the Müller-Israel-Stewart second-order phenomenological theory for dissipative fluids, we analyse the effects of thermal conduction and viscosity in a relativistic fluid, just after its departure from hydrostatic equilibrium, on a time scale of the order of the relaxation times. Stability and causality conditions are contrasted with conditions for which the `effective inertial mass' vanishes.
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