Suppression of gravitational radiation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/4/016zbMATH Open0933.83018arXivgr-qc/9703012OpenAlexW3105793146MaRDI QIDQ4699644FDOQ4699644

Authors: W. B. Bonnor, M. S. Piper 

Publication date: 18 November 1999

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a burst of quadrupole gravitational radiation in the presence of a large static mass $M$ situated at its source. Some of the radiation is back-scattered off the static field of the large mass, forming a wave tail. After the burst, the tail is a pure incoming wave, carrying energy back towards the source. We calculate this energy, and, in a numerical example, compare it with the outgoing wave energy. If $M$ is sufficiently large the incoming energy can equal the outgoing energy, indicating that the primary outgoing wave is completely suppressed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9703012

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zbMATH Keywords

quadrupole radiation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Cited In (3)

• Backscattering in propagation of spherically symmetric massless scalar fields
• Scalar and vector tail radiation from the interior of the lightcone
• Exact solutions of covariant wave equations with a multipole source term on curved spacetimes

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