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Angular distribution is investigated of instantaneous radiation power of a point charge moving in an arbitrary manner. All special features of such distribution are found. The radiation distributor is analyzed geometrically as one-parameter family of surfaces, the parameter being the angle between the charge velocity and its acceleration. The envelope of this family is found and studied.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 6, pp. 86–91, June, 1972.
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Bagrov, V.G., Bordovitsyn, V.A. & Kopytov, G.F. Radiation indicatrix of an arbitrarily moving charge. Soviet Physics Journal 15, 850–854 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00912224
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