Author(s)

Manfried Faber, Martin Suda

Atominstitut, Technical University Vienna and AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna, Austria.

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.

Gravitational Waves, Circular Orbits, Linearized Einstein Equations

Faber, M. and Suda, M. (2018) Influence of Gravitational Waves on Circular Moving Particles. Journal of Modern Physics, 9, 651-668. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2018.94045.