The rotation of polarization by gravitational waves

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dc.creatorFaraoni, Valerio
dc.date2007-09-04
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dc.descriptionThere are conflicting statements in the literature about the gravitational Faraday rotation of the plane of polarization of polarized electromagnetic radiation travelling through a gravitational wave. This issue is reconsidered using a simple formalism describing the rotation of the plane of polarization in a gravitational field, in the geometric optics approximation. It is shown that, to first order in the gravitational wave amplitude, the rotation angle is a boundary effect which vanishes for localized (astrophysically generated) gravitational waves and is non-zero, but nevertheless negligible, for cosmological gravitational waves.
dc.description11 pages, latex, to appear in New Astronomy
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0386
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0386
dc.identifierNewAstron.13:178-181,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1016/j.newast.2007.08.005
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/204410
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleThe rotation of polarization by gravitational waves
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