Multipolar equations of motion for extended test bodies in general relativity

被引:63
作者
Steinhoff, Jan [1 ]
Puetzfeld, Dirk [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Jena, Inst Theoret Phys, D-07743 Jena, Germany
[2] Albert Einstein Inst, Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, D-14476 Golm, Germany
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2010年 / 81卷 / 04期
关键词
LORENTZ-COVARIANT APPROXIMATION; SPINNING TEST PARTICLES; GRAVITATIONAL-RADIATION; CONSERVED QUANTITIES; DYNAMICS; MASS; MOMENTUM; WAVES;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.044019
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We derive the equations of motion of an extended test body in the context of Einstein's theory of gravitation. The equations of motion are obtained via a multipolar approximation method and are given up to the quadrupolar order. Special emphasis is put on the explicit construction of the so-called canonical form of the energy-momentum density. The set of gravitational multipolar moments and the corresponding equations of motion allow for a systematic comparison to competing multipolar approximation schemes.
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