Gravitational Radiation Theory and Light Propagation release_rev_3bc69b7a-0211-43ae-b23b-47503858502e

by Luc Blanchet, Sergei Kopeikin, Gerhard Schäfer

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The paper gives an introduction to the gravitational radiation theory of isolated sources and to the propagation properties of light rays in radiative gravitational fields. It presents a theoretical study of the generation, propagation, back-reaction, and detection of gravitational waves from astrophysical sources. After reviewing the various quadrupole-moment laws for gravitational radiation in the Newtonian approximation, we show how to incorporate post-Newtonian corrections into the source multipole moments, the radiative multipole moments at infinity, and the back-reaction potentials. We further treat the light propagation in the linearized gravitational field outside a gravitational wave emitting source. The effects of time delay, bending of light, and moving source frequency shift are presented in terms of the gravitational lens potential. Time delay results are applied in the description of the procedure of the detection of gravitational waves.
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Date   2000-08-30
Version   v1
Language   en ?
arXiv  gr-qc/0008074v1
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