C Barrabès and P A Hogan 2004 Class. Quantum Grav. 21 405 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/21/2/005
C Barrabès1 and P A Hogan2
Show affiliationsA novel approach to the calculation of the deflection of highly relativistic test particles in gravitational fields is described. We make use of the light-like boosts of the gravitational fields of the sources. Examples are given of the deflection of highly relativistic particles in the Schwarzschild and Kerr gravitational fields, in the field of a static, axially symmetric, multipole source and in the field of a cosmic string. The deflection of spinning particles is also discussed.
04.20.-q Classical general relativity
11.27.+d Extended classical solutions; cosmic strings, domain walls, texture
Issue 2 (21 January 2004)
Received 26 September 2003
Published 4 December 2003
C Barrabès and P A Hogan 2004 Class. Quantum Grav. 21 405
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