Dispersion of gravitational waves in cold spherical interstellar medium

DOI10.1142/S0218271818500402zbMATH Open1427.83013arXiv1708.05576OpenAlexW2750019301MaRDI QIDQ5203783FDOQ5203783

Authors: Dániel Barta, Mátyás Vasúth 

Publication date: 9 December 2019

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

Abstract: We investigate the propagation of locally plane, small-amplitude, monochromatic gravitational waves through cold compressible interstellar gas in order to provide a more accurate picture of expected waveforms for direct detection. The quasi-isothermal gas is concentrated in a spherical symmetric cloud held together by self-gravitation. Gravitational waves can be treated as linearized perturbations on the background inner Schwarzschild spacetime. The perturbed quantities lead to the field equations governing the gas dynamics and describe the interaction of gravitational waves with matter. The resulted field equations decouple asymptotically for slowly varying short waves to a set of three PDEs of different orders of magnitude. A second-order WKB method provides transport equations for the wave amplitudes. The influence of background curvature already appears in the first-order amplitudes, which gives rise to diffraction. We have shown that the transport equation of these amplitudes provides numerical solutions for the frequency-alteration. The energy dissipating process is responsible for decreasing frequency. The decrease is significantly smaller than the magnitude of the original frequency and exhibits a power-law relationship between original and decreased frequencies. The frequency deviation was examined particularly for the transient signal GW150914. Considering AGNs as larger background structures and high-frequency signals emitted by BNS mergers, the frequency-deviation grows large enough to be relevant in future GW-observations with increased sensitivity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.05576

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zbMATH Keywords

gravitational wavesrelativity and gravitationwave propagation and interactions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational waves (83C35)

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