| Issue |
A&A
Volume 396, Number 3, December IV 2002
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 1045 - 1051 | |
| Section | Astronomical instrumentation | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20021427 | |
| Published online | 05 December 2002 | |
Acceleration and cyclotron radiation induced by gravitational waves
Department of Physics, Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
Corresponding author: papadop@astro.auth.gr
Received:
16
July
2002
Accepted:
5
September
2002
The equations that determine the response of a
charged particle moving in a magnetic field to an incident
gravitational wave (GW) are derived in the linearized approximation
to general relativity. We briefly discuss several astrophysical
applications of the derived formulae, taking into account the
resonance between the wave and the particle's motion that occurs
at 
, whenever the GW is parallel to the
constant magnetic field. In the case where the GW is perpendicular
to the constant magnetic field, magnetic resonances appear at
and . Such a resonant
mechanism may be useful in building models of GW-driven cyclotron
emitters.
Key words: relativity / gravitational waves
© ESO, 2002
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