Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2006-08-02
Phys.Rev. D74 (2006) 044020
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
20 pages, 3 ps figures, small typos corrected, published version
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.74.044020
We consider colliding wave packets consisting of hybrid mixtures of electromagnetic, gravitational and scalar waves. Irrespective of the scalar field, the electromagnetic wave still reflects from the gravitational wave. Some reflection processes are given for different choice of packets in which the Coulomb-like component $\Psi_2$ vanishes. Exact solution for multiple reflection of an electromagnetic wave from successive impulsive gravitational waves is obtained in a closed form. It is shown that a succesive sign flip in the Maxwell spinor arises as a result of encountering with an impulsive train (i.e. the Dirac's comb curvature) of gravitational waves. Such an observable effect may be helpful in the detection of gravitational wave bursts.
Gurtug Ozay
Halilsoy Mustafa
Unver Ozlem
No associations
LandOfFree
Reflection of electromagnetic waves from mixtures of plane gravitational and scalar waves does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.
If you have personal experience with Reflection of electromagnetic waves from mixtures of plane gravitational and scalar waves, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Reflection of electromagnetic waves from mixtures of plane gravitational and scalar waves will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-264559