A new approach to electromagnetic wave tails on a curved spacetime

Details A new approach to electromagnetic wave tails on a curved spacetime A new approach to electromagnetic wave tails on a curved spacetime

2000-08-18

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0008047v2

Phys.Rev. D63 (2001) 063003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

RevTex, 28 pages, 5 eps figures, http://www.tpu.ee/~tony/texdocs/, 4 changes made (pp. 2, 4, 22, 24), 2 references added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.63.063003

We present an alternative method for constructing the exact and approximate solutions of electromagnetic wave equations whose source terms are arbitrary order multipoles on a curved spacetime. The developed method is based on the higher-order Green's functions for wave equations which are defined as distributions that satisfy wave equations with the corresponding order covariant derivatives of the Dirac delta function as the source terms. The constructed solution is applied to the study of various geometric effects on the generation and propagation of electromagnetic wave tails to first order in the Riemann tensor. Generally the received radiation tail occurs after a time delay which represents geometrical backscattering by the central gravitational source. It is shown that the truly nonlocal wave-propagation correction (the tail term) takes a universal form which is independent of multipole order. In a particular case, if the radiation pulse is generated by the source during a finite time interval, the tail term after the primary pulse is entirely determined by the energy-momentum vector of the gravitational field source: the form of the tail term is independent of the multipole structure of the gravitational source. We apply the results to a compact binary system and conclude that under certain conditions the tail energy can be a noticeable fraction of the primary pulse energy. We argue that the wave tails should be carefully considered in energy calculations of such systems.

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