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Gravitational Waves in General Relativity

Hermann Bondi
- 14 May 1960 - 
- Vol. 186, Iss: 4724, pp 535-535
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In this paper, the emission of gravitational waves from a finite isolated axially symmetrical material system in otherwise empty space has been investigated by consideration of the metric : Einstein vacuum field equations have been solved by an expansion in negative powers of r which represents radial distance in a well-defined sense.
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THE emission of gravitational waves from a finite isolated axially symmetrical material system in otherwise empty space has been investigated by consideration of the metric : Einstein vacuum field equations have been solved by an expansion in negative powers of r which represents radial distance in a well-defined sense. In this expansion it has been assumed that only outgoing waves are present. The expression : represents mass in the static case, and forms a suitable generalization of this static concept to the dynamical case.

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