Interaction of Gravitational Waves with Charged Particles
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-02-04 v1
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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@article{arxiv.1502.00891,
title = {Interaction of Gravitational Waves with Charged Particles},
author = {Thulsi Wickramasinghe and Will Rhodes and Mitchell Revalski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.00891},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Appears in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics, Editor C.F. Sopuerta, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings, Volume 40. ISBN 978-3-319-10487-4. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2015, p. 295