The Active Gravitational Mass of a Heat Conducting Sphere Out of Hydrostatic Equilibrium

We obtain an expression for the activegravitational mass of a relativistic heat conductingfluid, just after its departure from hydrostaticequilibrium, on a time scale of the order of relaxationtime. It is shown that an increase of acharacteristic parameter leads to larger (smaller)values of active gravitational mass of collapsing(expanding) spheres, enhancing thereby the instabilityof the system.