Thursday, November 29, 2012

1106.5866 (Miki Obradovic et al.)

Particle motion in weak relativistic gravitational fields    [PDF]

Miki Obradovic, Martin Kunz, Mark Hindmarsh, Ilian T. Iliev
We derive the geodesic equation of motion in the presence of weak gravitational fields produced by relativistic sources such as cosmic strings, decomposed into scalar, vector and tensor parts. We find that the vector (gravito-magnetic) force is an important contributor, and for non-relativistic particles we recover the well-known result for the impulse from a moving straight string. Our results can be straightforwardly incorporated into N-body simulations to allow for the presence of cosmic defects or other sources of weak gravitational fields.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.5866

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