Gravitational Shock Waves for Schwarzschild and Kerr Black Holes

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13 April 1994

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.gr-qc/9404027

Abstract

The metrics of gravitational shock waves for a Schwarzschild black hole in ordinary coordinates and for a Kerr black hole in Boyer-Lindquist coordinates are derived. The Kerr metric is discussed for two cases: the case of a Kerr black hole moving parallel to the rotational axis, and moving perpendicular to the rotational axis. Then, two properties from the derived metrics are investigated: the shift of a null coordinate and the refraction angle crossing the gravitational shock wave. Astrophysical applications for these metrics are discussed in short.

Keywords

GRAVITATIONAL SHOCK WAVES
KERR BLACK HOLE
SCHWARZSCHILD
SHOCK WAVE

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Version 1, 1994-04-13, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review D, 50 (6), 3666.

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