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Plasma Damping of Gravitational Waves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

C. Sivaram
C. Sivaram*
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Astrophysics Bangalore 560034, India

Abstract

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The possibility of the damping of plane gravitational waves while propagating in a plasma medium is considered. The gravitational plasma frequency, is for a neutron star medium ~ 103Hz, which is the same as the frequency of the gravitational waves emitted by a collapsing star. So resonant damping of such waves within a collapsing star is probable. Estimates are made for the damping length for dense and dilute plasmas (also in the presence of magnetic fields). Analogies with Landau damping are made. Applications to other astrophysical situations are outlined.

Type
II. The Solar Interior
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 142: Basic Plasma Processes on the Sun , 1990 , pp. 62
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990