Abstract
Relativistic disks enhance the intensity of radiation in directions near their plane. The gravitational pulses which Weber claims to have detected may arise in such a disk situated in the Galactic nucleus, with its plane aligned with that of the Galaxy. A typical enhancement factor is 30.
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JACKSON, J. Gravitational Waves and Relativistic Disks. Nature 241, 513–515 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/241513a0
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