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Helicity-rotation-gravity coupling for gravitational waves

Jairzinho Ramos

Bahram Mashhoon

  • Physics Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA

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Phys. Rev. D 73, 084003 – Published 5 April, 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.73.084003

Abstract

The consequences of spin-rotation-gravity coupling are worked out for linear gravitational waves. The coupling of helicity of the wave with the rotation of a gravitational-wave antenna is investigated and the resulting modifications in the Doppler effect and aberration are pointed out for incident high-frequency gravitational radiation. Extending these results to the case of a gravitomagnetic field via the gravitational Larmor theorem, the rotation of linear polarization of gravitational radiation propagating in the field of a rotating mass is studied. It is shown that in this case the linear polarization state rotates by twice the Skrotskii angle as a consequence of the spin-2 character of linear gravitational waves.

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Phys. Rev. D 73, 084003– Published 5 April, 2006
  • Received 16 January 2006

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