Published November 1988
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Journal article
Beam-like gravitational waves and their geodesics
Description
Exact solutions for the gravitational wave produced by an impulsive, massless beam of arbitrary energy profile are constructed in any number of spacetime dimensions. Geodesics can be explicitly computed and, for homogeneous, axisymmetric, finite-size beams, they exactly focus at the location of the curvature singularity found in the infinite shell collision
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- General Relativity and Gravitation
- Journal Volume
- 20
- Journal Issue
- 11
- Series
- Gen. Relativ. Gravitation.
- Journal Page Range
- 1185-1192
- ISSN
- 0001-7701
- CODEN
- GRGVA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 20070712
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BEAM PROFILES; COLLISIONS; EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS; ENERGY DENSITY; FOCUSING; GEODESICS; GRAVITATIONAL INTERACTIONS; GRAVITATIONAL WAVES; GRAVITONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; PARTICLE BEAMS; SINGULARITY; SPACE-TIME; STRING MODELS
- Descriptors DEC
- BASIC INTERACTIONS; BEAMS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUATIONS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD EQUATIONS; GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; RADIATIONS