Phys. Rev. D 69, 087501 (2004) [4 pages]Gravitational Faraday rotation in a weak gravitational fieldReceived 23 June 2003; revised 10 December 2003; published 8 April 2004 We examine the rotation of the plane of polarization for linearly polarized light rays by the weak gravitational field of an isolated physical system. Based on the rotation of inertial frames, we review the general integral expression for the net rotation. We apply this formula, an analogue to the usual electromagnetic Faraday effect, to some interesting astrophysical systems, namely uniformly shifting mass monopoles and a spinning external shell. © 2004 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.69.087501
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.69.087501
PACS:
04.20.Cv, 04.25.Nx, 04.70.Bw, 95.30.Sf
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