Finite pulse count for a falling Schwarzschild beacon

ID: finite-pulse-count-for-a-falling-schwarzschild-beacon

A freely falling source emits optical pulses at proper times , for integers . If its horizon-crossing proper time is finite, only pulses beginning before can escape. Their number is the displayed ceiling, for . Infinite Schwarzschild time at crossing does not give infinitely many emitted pulses. The pulse phase fixes both the count and the redshift of the last pulse. If a finite pulse straddles the horizon, its exterior portion has an arbitrarily late, increasingly redshifted received tail.

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