Gravitational Wave Emission from a Bounded Source: the Nonlinear Regime

Abstract

We study the dynamics of a bounded gravitational collapsing configuration emitting gravitational waves, where the exterior spacetime is described by Robinson-Trautman geometries. The full nonlinear regime is examined by using the Galerkin method that allows us to reduce the equations governing the dynamics to a finite-dimensional dynamical system, after a proper truncation procedure. Amongst the obtained results of the nonlinear evolution, one of the most impressive is the fact that the distribution of the mass fraction extracted by gravitational wave emission satisfies the distribution law of nonextensive statistics and this result is independent of the initial configurations considered.

3 page, 1 figure, proceedings of the X Marcel Grossmann Meeting 22-26 July, 2003, Rio de Janeiro

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