Gravitational waves -- a review on the theoretical foundations of gravitational radiation

DOI10.1142/S0217751X18300132MaRDI QIDQ4563330zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alain R. P. Dirkes

Publication date 31 May 2018

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.05958

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational wavesorbital decayquadrupole formulaTT-gauge

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Gravitational waves (83C35) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40)

Abstract: In this manuscript we review the theoretical foundations of gravitational waves in the framework of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Following Einstein's early efforts we first derive the linearised Einstein field equations and work out the corresponding gravitational wave equation. Moreover we present the gravitational potentials in the far away wave zone field point approximation obtained from the relaxed Einstein field equations. We close this review by taking a closer look on the radiative losses of gravitating $n$-body systems and present some aspects of the current interferometric gravitational waves detectors. Each section posses a separate appendix-contribution where further computational details are displayed. To conclude we summarize the main results and present a brief outlook in terms of current ongoing efforts to build a spaced based gravitational wave observatory.

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