Can Schwarzschildean gravitational fields suppress gravitational waves?

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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18 pages, Revtex. Added three references; a new comment in Sec. 7; several misprints corrected. To appear in the Phys. Rev. D

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10.1103/PhysRevD.64.044012

Gravitational waves in the linear approximation propagate in the Schwarzschild spacetime similarly as electromagnetic waves. A fraction of the radiation scatters off the curvature of the geometry. The energy of the backscattered part of an initially outgoing pulse of the quadrupole gravitational radiation is estimated by compact formulas depending on the initial energy, the Schwarzschild radius, and the location and width of the pulse. The backscatter becomes negligible in the short wavelength regime.

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