Complete gauge-invariant formalism for arbitrary second-order perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole
- 17 July 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 80 (2), 024021
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.80.024021
Abstract
Using recently developed efficient symbolic manipulations tools, we present a general gauge-invariant formalism to study arbitrary radiative () second-order perturbations of a Schwarzschild black hole. In particular, we construct the second-order Zerilli and Regge-Wheeler equations under the presence of any two first-order modes, reconstruct the perturbed metric in terms of the master scalars, and compute the radiated energy at null infinity. The results of this paper enable systematic studies of generic second-order perturbations of the Schwarzschild spacetime, in particular, studies of mode-mode coupling and nonlinear effects in gravitational radiation, the second-order stability of the Schwarzschild spacetime, or the geometry of the black hole horizon.
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