Quasi-local mass at null infinity in Bondi-Sachs coordinates

Understand

There are two important statements regarding the Trautman-Bondi mass at null infinity: one is the positivity, and the other is the Bondi mass loss formula, which are both global in nature.

• In this note, we compute the limit of the Wang-Yau quasi-local mass on unit spheres at null infinity of an asymptotically flat spacetime in the Bondi-Sachs coordinates.
• The quasi-local mass leads to a local description of the radiation that is purely gravitational at null infinity.
• In particular, the quasi-local mass is evaluated in terms of the news function of the Bondi-Sachs coordinates.