On the multipole expansion of the gravitational field

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/7/013MaRDI QIDQ4699684zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Luc Blanchet

Publication date 18 November 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9801101

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational fieldmultipole expansionEinstein quadrupole formulapost-Newtonian expansionLIGO experimentslinearized approximation of general relativityVIRGO experiments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

Abstract: This paper constructs the multipole expansion (in general relativity) of the gravitational field generated by a slowly-moving isolated source. We introduce some definitions for the source multipole moments, valid to all orders in a post-Newtonian expansion, and depending in a well-defined way on the total stress-energy pseudo-tensor of the material and gravitational fields. Previously obtained expressions of the source multipole moments are recovered in the appropriate limits. The source moments parametrize the linearized approximation of the gravitational field exterior to the source, as computed by means of a specific post-Minkowskian algorithm defined in a previous work. Since the radiative multipole moments parametrizing the radiation field far from the source can be obtained as non-linear functionals of the source moments, the present paper permits relating the radiation field far from a slowly-moving source to the stress-energy pseudo-tensor of the source. This should be useful when comparing to theory the future observations of gravitational radiation by the LIGO and VIRGO experiments.

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