Stationary charged <i>C</i>-metric

Abstract

The physical properties of the stationary charged C-metric are fully investigated. Tetrad components of curvature and Maxwell tensors are studied in a Bondi–Sachs coordinate system to show that this solution represents a uniformly accelerating and rotating charged particle with magnetic monopole and NUT parameter. The physical quantities—news function, mass loss, mass, charge, and multipole moments—are calculated. The different mass loss definitions are compared and it is shown that the definition given by Bondi is the more appropriate one. It is also shown that the magnetic monopole in the presence of rotation affects the electric charge.