Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2006-09-21
AIP Conf. Proc. 848, 677 (2006)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Talk given by T. A. A. at Recent Advances in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Lixourion, Kefallinia island, Greece, 8-11 Sep 2005
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2348046
The electrovacuum around a rotating massive body with electric charge density is described by its multipole moments (mass moments, mass-current moments, electric moments, and magnetic moments). A small uncharged test particle orbiting around such a body moves on geodesics if gravitational radiation is ignored. The waves emitted by the small body carry information about the geometry of the central object, and hence, in principle, we can infer all its multipole moments. Due to its axisymmetry the source is characterized now by four families of scalar multipole moments: its mass moments $M_l$, its mass-current moments $S_l$, its electrical moments $E_l$ and its magnetic moments $H_l$, where $l=0,1,2,...$. Four measurable quantities, the energy emitted by gravitational waves per logarithmic interval of frequency, the precession of the periastron (assuming almost circular orbits), the precession of the orbital plane (assuming almost equatorial orbits), and the number of cycles emitted per logarithmic interval of frequency, are presented as power series of the newtonian orbital velocity of the test body. The power series coefficients are simple polynomials of the various moments.
Apostolatos Theocharis A.
Sotiriou Thomas P.
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