Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1994-05-17
Phys.Rev. D50 (1994) 3703-3712
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
15 pages, RevTex 3.0, 7 figures available via anonymous ftp from directory pub/pcasper at alpha1.csd.uwm.edu, WISC-MILW-94-TH-
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.50.3703
Cosmic string loops are defined by a pair of periodic functions ${\bf a}$ and ${\bf b}$, which trace out unit-length closed curves in three-dimensional space. We consider a particular class of loops, for which ${\bf a}$ lies along a line and ${\bf b}$ lies in the plane orthogonal to that line. For this class of cosmic string loops one may give a simple analytic expression for the power $\gamma$ radiated in gravitational waves. We evaluate $\gamma$ exactly in closed form for several special cases: (1) ${\bf b}$ a circle traversed $M$ times; (2) ${\bf b}$ a regular polygon with $N$ sides and interior vertex angle $\pi-2\pi M/N$; (3) ${\bf b}$ an isosceles triangle with semi-angle $\theta$. We prove that case (1) with $M=1$ is the absolute minimum of $\gamma$ within our special class of loops, and identify all the stationary points of $\gamma$ in this class.
Allen Bruce
Casper Paul
Ottewill Adrian
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