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Infall of a particle into a black hole as a model for gravitational radiation from the galactic center
I present here the results of the study of the gravitational radiation
generated by the infall (from rest at radius ) of a point particle of mass
into a Schwarzschild black hole of mass . We use Laplace's transform
methods and find that the spectra of radiation for presents
a series of evenly spaced bumps. The total radiated energy is not monotonically
decreasing with , but presents a joroba (hunch-back) at around
. I finally discuss the detectability of the gravitational
radiation coming from the black hole in the center of our galaxy.Comment: Latex, 4 pages, 3 figures (resume' of the talk at the 18th Texas
Symposium
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