Doppler shift for a uniformly accelerated receiver

ID: doppler-shift-for-a-uniformly-accelerated-receiver

In units , a receiver on the hyperbolic motion worldline , has retarded null coordinate . A right-moving light ray emitted at has , so it meets the receiver only if . The photon wave covector is proportional to , and contraction with the receiver's four-velocity gives its measured frequency as . The intersection condition gives the second displayed equality. Emission at lies on the Rindler horizon and never reaches the receiver at finite proper time; is the supremum of receivable emission times, not an attained latest time.

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