Abstract
We present a formulation of Einstein--Maxwell vacuum fields due to plane fronted electromagnetic waves sharing their wave fronts with gravitational waves. This is based on a recent geometrical reconstruction of plane fronted wave fields by the authors which clearly identifies the cases in which the wave fronts collide or do not collide. In the former case our construction suggests an explicit example of a searchlight beam, accompanied by gravitational radiation, which sweeps across the sky. This gravito--electromagnetic searchlight and its properties are described in detail.
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