GRAVITATIONAL-WAVES FROM AN AXISYMMETRICAL SOURCE IN THE NONSYMMETRICGRAVITATIONAL THEORY

Citation
Nj. Cornish et al., GRAVITATIONAL-WAVES FROM AN AXISYMMETRICAL SOURCE IN THE NONSYMMETRICGRAVITATIONAL THEORY, General relativity and gravitation, 27(9), 1995, pp. 933-946
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
ISSN journal
00017701
Volume
27
Issue
9
Year of publication
1995
Pages
933 - 946
Database
ISI
SICI code
0001-7701(1995)27:9<933:GFAASI>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
We examine gravitational waves in an isolated axi-symmetric reflexion symmetric system in the framework of the Nonsymmetric Gravitational Th eory (NGT). The vacuum field equations are analyzed and the exact solu tion for the field variables in the metric tenser are found in the for m of expansions in powers of a radial coordinate. We find that when th e system radiates, the mass decreases monotonically and the energy flu x associated with waves is positive.