Generalization of the quadrupole formula for the energy of gravitational radiation in de Sitter spacetime

Abstract

We study gravitational radiation produced by time changing matter source in de Sitter spacetime. We consider a cosmological Killing horizon instead of the conformal boundary used in the radiation theory in the Minkowski spacetime. The energy of the radiation passing through the horizon is derived. Our result takes the form of a generalized quadruple formula expressed in terms of the mass and pressure quadruple moments and is written explicitly up to the first order in $\sqrt{\Lambda}$. The zeroth order term recovers the famous Einstein's quadruple formula obtained for the perturbed Minkowski spacetime, whereas the first order term is a new correction.