Comments on gravitational radiation damping and energy loss in binary systems.
Abstract
It is argued that a formula for the energy loss due to gravitational radiation of bound systems such as binaries has not yet been derived either exactly or by means of a consistent approximation method within general relativity, a view which contradicts some widely accepted claims in the literature. The main approaches used to obtain such a formula are critically reviewed, and it is pointed out that the derivations presented so far either contain inconsistencies or are incomplete.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- September 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1086/182236
- Bibcode:
- 1976ApJ...208L..77E
- Keywords:
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- Binary Stars;
- Energy Dissipation;
- Gravitational Waves;
- Stellar Gravitation;
- Iterative Solution;
- Relativity;
- Stellar Models;
- Astrophysics