Acta Physica Polonica B

Vol. 32, No. 11, November 2001, page 3593


Schwarzschild Black Holes and Propagation of Electromagnetic and Gravitational Waves

Janusz Karkowski, Edward Malec, Zdobyslaw Swierczynski

Disturbing of a spacetime geometry may result in the appearance of an oscillating and damped radiation --- the so-called quasinormal modes. Their periods of oscillations and damping coefficients carry unique information about the mass and the angular momentum, that would allow one to identify the source of the gravitational field. In this talk we present recent bounds on the diffused energy, applicable to the Schwarzschild spacetime, that give also rough estimates of the energy of excited quasinormal modes.

PACS numbers: 04.20.--q, 04.70.--s, 95.30.Sf, 98.62.Js


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