Vaidya's Radiating Schwarzschild Metric

Abstract
In Vaidya's metric for a radiating sphere, ds2=(12mr1)du22dudr+r2dΩ2, where m(u) is a nonincreasing function of the retarded time u=tr, we verify that dmdu is the total power output as given by the Landau-Lifshitz stress-energy pseudotensor, and relate it through red-shift and Doppler-shift factors to the apparent luminosity L for an observer moving radially in this gravitational field. We argue that the hypersurface r=2m(u) cannot be realized physically, but see that a hypersurface r=2m() at u= (which is not adequately represented in presently available coordinate systems) shows the total red-shift characteristic of the Schwarzschild "singularity." The geodesic equations are written out to display a gravitational "induction field" GLc3r associated with a changing mass in the Newtonian Gmr2 field.

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