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arxiv 0905.3339 v1 pith:PRTNYZBL submitted 2009-05-20 gr-qc

Electromagnetic wave scattering by Schwarzschild black holes

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We analyze the scattering of a planar monochromatic electromagnetic wave incident upon a Schwarzschild black hole. We obtain accurate numerical results from the partial wave method for the electromagnetic scattering cross section, and show that they are in excellent agreement with analytical approximations. The scattering of electromagnetic waves is compared with the scattering of scalar, spinor and gravitational waves. We present a unified picture of the scattering of all massless fields for the first time.

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