The generation of gravitational waves. I - Weak-field sources

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Sep 1975

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Astrophysical Journal, vol. 200, Sept. 1, 1975, pt. 1, p. 245-262.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Algorithms, Astrophysics, Field Theory (Physics), Gravitational Waves, Radiation Sources, Relativity, Einstein Equations, Gravitational Fields, Green'S Functions, Magnetic Moments, Operators (Mathematics), Quadrupoles, Time Dependence, Wave Generation

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This paper derives and summarizes a 'plug-in-and-grind' formalism for calculating the gravitational waves emitted by any system with weak internal gravitational fields. If the internal fields have negligible influence on the system's motions, the formalism reduces to standard 'linearized theory'. Independent of the effects of gravity on the motions, the formalism reduces to the standard 'quadrupole-moment formalism' if the motions are slow and internal stresses are weak. In the general case, the formalism expresses the radiation in terms of a retarded Green's function for slightly curved spacetime and breaks the Green's function integral into five easily understood pieces: direct radiation, produced directly by the motions of the source; whump radiation, produced by the 'gravitational stresses' of the source; transition radiation, produced by a time-changing time delay ('Shapiro effect') in the propagation of the nonradiative 1/r field of the source; focusing radiation, produced when one portion of the source focuses, in a time-dependent way, the nonradiative field of another portion of the source; and tail radiation, produced by 'back-scatter' of the nonradiative field in regions of focusing.

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