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arxiv: 0710.4252 · v2 · submitted 2007-10-23 · 🌀 gr-qc · astro-ph

Scattering of Long-Wavelength Gravitational Waves

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keywords crosssectiongravitationalmethodspartial-wavescatteringaccurateagrees
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We consider the scattering of a low-frequency gravitational wave by a massive compact body in vacuum. We apply partial-wave methods to compute amplitudes for the helicity-conserving and helicity-reversing contributions to the cross section, accurate to first order in $M\omega$. Contrary to previous claims, we find that the partial-wave cross section agrees with the cross section derived via perturbation-theory methods.

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