Photon rockets in the (anti-)de Sitter universe

Article

Photon rockets in the (anti-)de Sitter universe

Podolský Jiří

Phys. Rev. D 78, 044029 (2008)

Abstract

A class of exact solutions of Einstein's equations is presented which describes accelerating photon rockets in de Sitter and anti-de Sitter universe. These are particular members of the Robinson-Trautman family of axially symmetric spacetimes with pure radiation. In particular, generalizations of (type D) Kinnersley's rockets and (type II) Bonnor's rockets to the case of a non-vanishing cosmological constant are given. Some of the main physical properties of these solutions are investigated, and their relation to the C-metric solution which describes uniformly accelerated black holes is also given.

Institute authors

Podolský, Jiří

Supported by

GACR 202/06/0041 — Contemporary problems of general relativity and gravitation
GACR 202/08/0187 — Exact solutions in higher dimensional and classical gravity
LC06014 — Centrum teoretické astrofyziky

BibTeX

@article{UTF223,
  author        = {Podolský Jiří},
  title         = {{Photon rockets in the (anti-)de Sitter universe}},
  journal       = {Phys. Rev. D},
  volume        = {78},
  pages         = {044029},
  year          = {2008},
  doi           = {10.1103/PhysRevD.78.044029},
  eprint        = {0806.2966},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
}