Field of an Arbitrarily Accelerating Point Mass
- 25 October 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 186 (5) , 1335-1336
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.186.1335
Abstract
A metric of the Kerr-Schild type is derived which contains four arbitrary functions of time. It is a generalization of Vaidya's shining-star metric, and permits arbitrary acceleration of the source.Keywords
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