Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1572–1575 (1993)Escape of gravitational radiation from the field of massive bodiesReceived 30 November 1992; published in the issue dated 15 March 1993 We consider a compact source of gravitational waves of frequency ω, in or near a massive spherically symmetric distribution of matter or a black hole. Recent calculations have led to apparently contradictory results for the influence of the massive body on the propagation of the waves. We show here that the results are in fact consistent and in agreement with the ‘‘standard’’ viewpoint in which the high-frequency compact source produces the radiation as if in a flat background, and the background curvature affects the propagation of these waves. © 1993 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.1572
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.1572
PACS:
04.30.+x
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