Bursts of radiation and recoil effects in electromagnetism and gravitation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/22/308zbMATH Open0988.83017arXivgr-qc/0012024OpenAlexW4298513283MaRDI QIDQ4529110FDOQ4529110

Authors: C. Barrabès, P. A. Hogan 

Publication date: 11 February 2001

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

Maxwell fieldfuture null-coneKinnersley rocketlightlike shell

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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