Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1998-11-10
Phys.Rev. D59 (1999) 044016
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
21 pages, 19 figures. Accepted for publication in Physical Review D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.59.044016
We present a new analytic approach for the study of late time evolution of linear test-fields, propagating on the exterior of black holes. This method provides a calculation scheme applicable to Kerr black holes (for which case no analytic calculation of the late time tails has been presented so far). In this paper we develop the new technique and apply it to the case of massless scalar waves evolving on the background geometry of a static spherically-symmetric thin shell with a Schwarzschild exterior. The late time behavior of the scalar field at null infinity is calculated, and is explicitly related to the form of (quite arbitrary) initial data. This reproduces the well-known late time power-law decaying tails. In an accompanying paper we apply our approach to the complete Schwarzschild black hole geometry, where we obtain the familiar inverse-power late time tails at null infinity, as well as at time-like infinity and along the event horizon. A calculation of the late time power-law tails in the Kerr geometry, based on the same approach, will be presented in a forthcoming paper.
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