Gravitational waveforms from the evaporating ACO cosmic string loop

Abstract

The linearly polarized gravitational waveforms from a certain type of rotating, evaporating cosmic string - the Allen-Casper-Ottewill loop - are constructed and plotted over the lifetime of the loop. The formulas for the waveforms are simple and exact, and describe waves which attenuate self-similarly, with the amplitude and period of the waves falling off linearly with time.

30 pages, 16 figures

References in corpus (2)

• Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from Light Cosmic Strings
• Continuous self-similar evaporation of a rotating cosmic string loop