Gravitational radiation from relativistic sources

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 (D_e) 3.2 Computing the field nonlinearities in (D_e) 3.3 The field in the far wave zone D_w 3.4 Nonlinear effects in the far-zone radiation field 4. Generation of gravitational waves 4.1 Post-Newtonian iteration of the field in D_i 4.2 The multipole moments as integrals over the source 5. Gravitational radiation reaction effects 6. Application to inspiralling compact binaries