Gravitational wave tails of tails
Gravitational wave tails of tails
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引力波尾巴的尾巴
DOI:
10.1088/0264-9381/15/1/009
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发表时间:
1997
影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
L. Blanchet
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作者:
L. Blanchet
The tails of gravitational waves are caused by the scattering of linear waves onto the spacetime curvature generated by the total mass-energy of the source. Quite naturally, the tails of tails are caused by curvature scattering of the tails of waves themselves. The tails of tails are associated with the cubic nonlinear interaction between two mass monopole moments and, dominantly, the mass quadrupole of the source. In this paper we determine the radiation field at large distances from the source for this particular monopole-monopole-quadrupole interaction. We find that the tails of tails appear at the third post-Newtonian (3PN) order beyond the usual quadrupole radiation. Motivated by the need for accurate templates to be used in the data analysis of future detectors of gravitational waves, we compute the contribution of tails, and of tails of tails, up to the 3.5PN order in the energy flux generated by in-spiralling compact binaries.