Electromagnetic radiation produces frame dragging
arXiv:1206.0413 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.064014
Abstract
It is shown that for a generic electrovacuum spacetime, electromagnetic radiation produces vorticity of worldlines of observers in a Bondi--Sachs frame. Such an effect (and the ensuing gyroscope precession with respect to the lattice) which is a reminiscence of generation of vorticity by gravitational radiation, may be linked to the nonvanishing of components of the Poynting and the super--Poynting vectors on the planes othogonal to the vorticity vector. The possible observational relevance of such an effect is commented.
8 pages RevTex 4-1; updated version to appear in Physical Review D
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