TITLE:
Influence of Gravitational Waves on Circular Moving Particles
AUTHORS:
Manfried Faber, Martin Suda
KEYWORDS:
Gravitational Waves, Circular Orbits, Linearized Einstein Equations
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Modern Physics,
Vol.9 No.4,
March
29,
2018
ABSTRACT: We investigate the influence of a gravitational wave background on particles in circular motion. We are especially interested in waves leading to stationary orbits. This consideration is limited to circular orbits perpendicular to the incidence direction. As a main result of our calculation, we obtain in addition to the well-known alteration of the radial distance a time dependent correction term for the phase modifying the circular motion of the particle. A background of gravitational waves creates some kind of uncertainty.