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Visualizing gravitational Bessel waves

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-10-01 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We explicitly derive a~vortex inspired solution for the metric perturbation within the linearized Einsteins general theory of relativity in arbitrary dimensions D4D\geq 4. We focus on D=4D=4 where our solution is the gravitational analog of the well-known electromagnetic (or electron) Bessel vortex beams. Next we visualize the perturbed spacetime via tidal tendexes and frame-drag vortexes. We display and analyze mostly two-dimensional sections of the tendexes and the vortexes for different values of an angular momentum of the wave solution. Corresponding geodesic deviation equations are solved and the results are visualized. We show that the physically most important quadrupolelike case leads to a~wave with rotating polarization. We discuss asymptotical features of the found solution. We provide also several 3D plots of tendex lines. One of them concerns a~special cylindrical-like case and we utilize the topological classification of singularities of the depicted line fields as an approach to characterize the radiation field.

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@article{arxiv.1909.13117,
  title  = {Visualizing gravitational Bessel waves},
  author = {Aleš Paták and Martin Zouhar and Tomáš Řiháček and Oto Brzobohatý and Jan Geršl and Anna Charvátová Campbell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.13117},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Published in PRD, final full-text available at the following link: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.044050

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