The creation of multiple images by a gravitational wave
Astrophysics
2016-01-27 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We describe gravitational lensing by a gravitational wave, in the regime in which multiple images of a light source are created. We adapt the vector formalism employed for ordinary gravitational lenses to the case of a non-stationary spacetime, and we derive an approximate condition for multiple imaging. It is shown that certain astrophysical sources of gravitational waves satisfy this condition.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9610164,
title = {The creation of multiple images by a gravitational wave},
author = {Valerio Faraoni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9610164},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
latex, 7 pages, no figures, to appear in Proceedings of the Pacific Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology, Seoul, Korea 1996