New examples of sandwich gravitational waves and their impulsive limit

Article

New examples of sandwich gravitational waves and their impulsive limit

Podolský, J.;Veselý, K.

Czech. J. Phys. 48(0), 871-878 (1998)

Abstract

Non-standard sandwich gravitational waves are constructed from the homogeneous pp vacuum solution and the motions of free test particles in the space-times are calculated explicitly. They demonstrate the caustic property of sandwich waves. By performing limits to impulsive gravitational wave it is demonstrated that the resulting particle motions are identical regardless of the ''initial'' sandwich.

Keywords

Gravitational Radiation

Institute authors

Podolský, Jiří

Supported by

GACR 202/96/0206 — Relativistic physics and astrophysics
GAUK 230/1996 — Relativistická teorie gravitace, astrofyzika a kosmologie

BibTeX

@article{UTF295,
  author        = {Podolský, J. and Veselý, K.},
  title         = {{New examples of sandwich gravitational waves and their impulsive limit}},
  journal       = {Czech. J. Phys.},
  volume        = {48},
  number        = {0},
  pages         = {871-878},
  year          = {1998},
  doi           = {10.1007/BF01590185},
  eprint        = {gr-qc/9801054},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url           = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/hm5423w63v6h3n52/fulltext.pdf},
}