The main purpose of this work is to study the collision of two black holes and the energy
loss due to the gravitational waves emitted during this collision in the framework of general
relativity. For this purpose we first study plane wave geometries and their collisions. More
realistic collisions are the pp-wave collisions. As an analytic treatment of this problem, we
investigate the head-on collision of two ultra-relativistic black holes. Treating the problem
perturbatively, we extract the news function to compute how much energy is radiated in gravitational
waves during the process. We show that the news function vanishes for the solutions
obtained meaning that there is no mass-loss at the order of approximation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12611479/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 January 2010 |
| Creators | Senturk, Cetin |
| Contributors | Karasu, Atalay |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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