Vacuum C metric and the gravitational Stark effect

D. Bini, C. Cherubini, and B. Mashhoon
Phys. Rev. D 70, 044020 – Published 18 August 2004
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We study the vacuum C metric and its physical interpretation in terms of the exterior spacetime of a uniformly accelerating spherically-symmetric gravitational source. Wave phenomena on the linearized C metric background are investigated. It is shown that the scalar perturbations of the linearized C metric correspond to the gravitational Stark effect. This effect is studied in connection with the Pioneer anomaly.

  • Received 16 January 2004

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.044020

©2004 American Physical Society

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D. Bini*

  • Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo “M. Picone,” CNR, I-00161 Rome, Italy
  • International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics-I.C.R.A., University of Rome “La Sapienza,” I-00185 Rome, Italy

C. Cherubini†

  • Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 2EG, England, United Kingdom;
  • Dipartimento di Fisica “E.R. Caianiello,” Università di Salerno, I-84081, Italy;
  • International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics-I.C.R.A., University of Rome “La Sapienza,” I-00185 Rome, Italy

B. Mashhoon‡

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA

  • *Electronic address: binid@icra.it
  • †Present address: Faculty of Engineering, University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, via E. Longoni 47, 00155 Rome, Italy. Electronic address: cherubini@icra.it
  • ‡Electronic address: MashhoonB@missouri.edu

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Vol. 70, Iss. 4 — 15 August 2004

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