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Mass Quadrupole Identified as Leading Radiation Source

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1918

Albert Einstein1918

Berlin · Science / Physics

Einstein showed that the leading gravitational radiation from an isolated slow-moving system is governed by changes in its mass quadrupole moment rather than by a simple mass dipole.

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Albert Einstein

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