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Gravitational radiation from relativistic sources

Luc Blanchet

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9607025

Abstract

1. Introduction 2. Basics and outline of the method 2.1 Regions around an isolated source 2.2 The quadrupole formalism 2.3 Outline of the method 3. Properties of radiative gravitational fields 3.1 The field in the exterior domain (De) 3.2 Computing the field nonlinearities in (De) 3.3 The field in the far wave zone Dw 3.4 Nonlinear effects in the far-zone radiation field 4. Generation of gravitational waves 4.1 Post-Newtonian iteration of the field in Di 4.2 The multipole moments as integrals over the source 5. Gravitational radiation reaction effects 6. Application to inspiralling compact binaries

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