Inhomogeneous cosmology. II. Linearly polarized gravitational waves

Journal Article · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985 · Astrophys. J.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1086/162757· OSTI ID:5772896

Adams, P J; Hellings, R W; Zimmerman, R L

This is the second in a series of papers whose purpose is to investigate the possible strength of a cosmic background of gravitational radiation. In this paper we present a metric which may be used to describe exact plane gravitational waves propagating over a homogeneous background spacetime, and we find solutions representing waves of linear polarization over backgrounds of Bianchi types I, III, V, and VI, as well as over a background with a smooth global inhomogeneity. In all of these cases, we find the property that inhomogeneity in the structure of the initial cosmic singularity evolves into gravitational waves propagating over a homogeneous background spacetime.

• Research Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
• OSTI ID: 5772896
• Journal Information: Astrophys. J.; (United States), Vol. 288:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
COSMOLOGY
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
WAVE PROPAGATION
ANALYTICAL SOLUTION
GRAVITATION
GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION
METRICS
POLARIZATION
SPACE-TIME
RADIATIONS
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