Asymptotic behaviour of Robinson-Trautman pure radiation solutions

Article

Asymptotic behaviour of Robinson-Trautman pure radiation solutions

Bičák, J.; Perjes, Z.

Class. Quantum Grav. 4(0), 595-597 (1987)

Abstract

It is shown that spherical Robinson-Trautman spacetimes filled with a homogeneous time-varying radiation field approach the Vaidya metric as the retarded time goes to infinity. This is a generalisation of an earlier result on the vacuum Robinson-Trautman spacetimes.

Institute authors

Bičák, Jiří

BibTeX

@article{UTF283,
  author        = {Bičák, J. and Perjes, Z.},
  title         = {{Asymptotic behaviour of Robinson-Trautman pure radiation solutions}},
  journal       = {Class. Quantum Grav.},
  volume        = {4},
  number        = {0},
  pages         = {595-597},
  year          = {1987},
  doi           = {10.1088/0264-9381/4/3/017},
  eprint        = {ads:1987CQGra...4..595B},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0264-9381/4/3/017/},
}