Interaction of gravitational waves with charged particles

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-10488-1_26MaRDI QIDQ3463608zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thulsi Wickramasinghe, Will Rhodes, Mitchell Revalski

Publication date 19 January 2016

Published in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00891

zbMATH Keywords

charged particlesgravitational waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: It is shown here that a cloud of charged particles could in principle absorb energy from gravitational waves (GWs) incident upon it, resulting in wave attenuation. This could in turn have implications for the interpretation of future data from early universe GWs.

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