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TY - JOUR
T1 - Spin driven motion in intense spacetime wave geometries
AU - Burton, David
AU - Tucker, Robin
AU - Wang, Charles
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - The motion of a massive particle with intrinsic spin in a gravitational Einstein vacuum plane wave background is explored using the pole-dipole approximation to the Dixon multipole expansion for matter with compact support. Motivated by application to astrophysical processes the dynamical behaviour of the spin and particle motion is described by numerically solving a system of non-linear first order ordinary differential equations. Some results are displayed in a reference frame adapted to the transverse nature of a monochromatic polarised gravitational wave of arbitrary intensity.
AB - The motion of a massive particle with intrinsic spin in a gravitational Einstein vacuum plane wave background is explored using the pole-dipole approximation to the Dixon multipole expansion for matter with compact support. Motivated by application to astrophysical processes the dynamical behaviour of the spin and particle motion is described by numerically solving a system of non-linear first order ordinary differential equations. Some results are displayed in a reference frame adapted to the transverse nature of a monochromatic polarised gravitational wave of arbitrary intensity.
U2 - 10.2298/TAM0229077B
DO - 10.2298/TAM0229077B
M3 - Journal article
SP - 77
EP - 92
JO - Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
JF - Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
IS - 28-29
ER -