Bursts of radiation and recoil effects in electromagnetism and gravitation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/22/308MaRDI QIDQ4529110zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Barrabès, P. A. Hogan

Publication date 11 February 2001

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0012024

zbMATH Keywords

Maxwell fieldfuture null-coneKinnersley rocketlightlike shell

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: The Maxwell field of a charge e which experiences an impulsive acceleration or deceleration is constructed explicitly by subdividing Minkowskian space-time into two halves bounded by a future null-cone and then glueing the halves back together with appropriate matching conditions. The resulting retarded radiation can be viewed as instantaneous electromagnetic bremsstrahlung. If we similarly consider a spherically symmetric, moving gravitating mass, to experience an impulsive deceleration, as viewed by a distant observer, then this is accompanied by the emission of a light-like shell whose total energy measured by this observer is the same as the kinetic energy of the source before it stops. This phenomenon is a recoil effect which may be thought of as a limiting case of a Kinnersley rocket.

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