Detection of Impulsive Light-Like Signals in General Relativity

Details Detection of Impulsive Light-Like Signals in General Relativity Detection of Impulsive Light-Like Signals in General Relativity

2001-05-09

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0105033v1

Int.J.Mod.Phys. D10 (2001) 711-722

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

13 pages, accepted for publication in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0218271801001098

The principal purpose of this paper is to study the effect of an impulsive light-like signal on neighbouring test particles. Such a signal can in general be unambiguously decomposed into a light-like shell of null matter and an impulsive gravitational wave. Our results are: (a) If there is anisotropic stress in the light-like shell then test particles initially moving in the signal front are displaced out of this 2-surface after encountering the signal; (b) For a light-like shell with no anisotropic stress accompanying a gravitational wave the effect of the signal on test particles moving in the signal front is to displace them relative to each other with the usual distortion due to the gravitational wave diminished by the presence of the light-like shell. An explicit example for a plane-fronted signal is worked out.

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