Submitting Campus
Prescott
Department
Physics and Astronomy
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
12-26-2017
Abstract/Description
We investigate the possibility of observing very low frequency (VLF) electromagnetic radiation produced from the vacuum by gravitational waves. We review the calculations leading to the possibility of vacuum conversion of gravitational waves into electromagnetic waves and show how this process evades the well-known prohibition against particle production from gravitational waves. Using Newman-Penrose scalars, we estimate the luminosity of this proposed electromagnetic counterpart radiation coming from gravitational waves produced by neutron star oscillations. The detection of electromagnetic counterpart radiation would provide an indirect way of observing gravitational radiation with future spacecraft missions, especially lunar orbiting probes.
Publication Title
Physical Review D
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.124030
Publisher
American Physical Society
Scholarly Commons Citation
Jones, P., Gretarsson, A., & Singleton, D. (2017). Low Frequency Electromagnetic Radiation From Gravitational Waves Generated by Neutron Stars. Physical Review D, 96(12). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.124030
