TY - JOUR
T1 - Gravitational radiation and the validity of the far-zone quadrupole formula in the Newtonian limit of general relativity
AU - Futamase, T.
AU - Schutz, Bernard F.
PY - 1985
Y1 - 1985
N2 - We examine the gravitational radiation emitted by a sequence of spacetimes whose near-zone Newtonian limit we have previously studied. The spacetimes are defined by initial data which scale in a Newtonian fashion: the density as 2, velocity as, pressure as 4, where is the sequence parameter. We asymptotically approximate the metric at an event which, as 0, remains a fixed number of gravitational wavelengths distant from the system and a fixed number of wave periods to the future of the initial hypersurface. We show that the radiation behaves like that of linearized theory in a Minkowski spacetime, since the mass of the metric vanishes as 0. We call this Minkowskian far-zone limiting manifold FM; it is a boundary of the sequence of spacetimes, in which the radiation carries an energy flux given asymptotically by the usual far-zone quadrupole formula (the Landau-Lifshitz formula), as measured both by the Isaacson average stress-energy tensor in FM or by the Bondi flux on IFM+. This proves that the quadrupole formula is an asymptotic approximation to general relativity. We study the relation between I, the sequence of null infinities of the individual manifolds, and IFM+; and we examine the gauge-invariance of FM under certain gauge transformations. We also discuss the relation of this calculation with similar ones in the frame-work of matched asymptotic expansions and others based on the characteristic initial-value problem.
AB - We examine the gravitational radiation emitted by a sequence of spacetimes whose near-zone Newtonian limit we have previously studied. The spacetimes are defined by initial data which scale in a Newtonian fashion: the density as 2, velocity as, pressure as 4, where is the sequence parameter. We asymptotically approximate the metric at an event which, as 0, remains a fixed number of gravitational wavelengths distant from the system and a fixed number of wave periods to the future of the initial hypersurface. We show that the radiation behaves like that of linearized theory in a Minkowski spacetime, since the mass of the metric vanishes as 0. We call this Minkowskian far-zone limiting manifold FM; it is a boundary of the sequence of spacetimes, in which the radiation carries an energy flux given asymptotically by the usual far-zone quadrupole formula (the Landau-Lifshitz formula), as measured both by the Isaacson average stress-energy tensor in FM or by the Bondi flux on IFM+. This proves that the quadrupole formula is an asymptotic approximation to general relativity. We study the relation between I, the sequence of null infinities of the individual manifolds, and IFM+; and we examine the gauge-invariance of FM under certain gauge transformations. We also discuss the relation of this calculation with similar ones in the frame-work of matched asymptotic expansions and others based on the characteristic initial-value problem.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.32.2557
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.32.2557
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:4243682308
VL - 32
SP - 2557
EP - 2565
JO - Physical review D: Particles and fields
JF - Physical review D: Particles and fields
SN - 0556-2821
IS - 10
ER -