TITLE:
Black Sun: Ocular Invisibility of Relativistic Luminous Astrophysical Bodies
AUTHORS:
Jeffrey S. Lee, Gerald B. Cleaver
KEYWORDS:
Relativistic Processes, Black Hole Physics, Reference Systems, Luminous Astrophysical Body, Relativistic Blackbody Spectrum
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology,
Vol.2 No.4,
September
12,
2016
ABSTRACT: Considered as a gedanken experiment are the conditions under which the relativistic Doppler shifting of visible electromagnetic radiation to beyond the human ocular range could reduce the incident radiance of the source, and render a luminous astrophysical body (LAB) invisible to a naked eye. This paper determines the proper distance as a function of relativistic velocity at which a luminous object attains ocular invisibility.