Freely falling bodies in a standing-wave spacetime

Autor: Szybka, Sebastian J., Naqvi, Syed U.
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Phys. Rev. D 103, 024011 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.024011
Popis: We study the motion of free masses subject to the influence of standing gravitational waves in the polarized Gowdy cosmology with a three-torus topology. We show that antinodes attract freely falling particles and we trace the velocity memory effect.
Comment: 23 pages, 8 figures; minor changes to match published version
Databáze: arXiv