Optics in a nonlinear gravitational plane wave

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/17/175017MaRDI QIDQ3447648zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Abraham I. Harte

Publication date 27 October 2015

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03658, http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0028-9F16-A

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational lensinggravitational wavespertubation theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric optics (78A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Gravitational waves (83C35) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05)

Abstract: Gravitational waves can act like gravitational lenses, affecting the observed positions, brightnesses, and redshifts of distant objects. Exact expressions for such effects are derived here in general relativity, allowing for arbitrarily-moving sources and observers in the presence of plane-symmetric gravitational waves. At least for freely falling sources and observers, it is shown that the commonly-used predictions of linear perturbation theory can be generically overshadowed by nonlinear effects; even for very weak gravitational waves, higher-order perturbative corrections involve secularly-growing terms which cannot necessarily be neglected when considering observations of sufficiently distant sources. Even on more moderate scales where linear effects remain at least marginally dominant, nonlinear corrections are qualitatively different from their linear counterparts. There is a sense in which they can, for example, mimic the existence of a third type of gravitational wave polarization.

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