2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/33742Gravitational radiation is locally defined where the wavefronts are roughly spherical. A local energy tensor is defined for the gravitational radiation. Including this energy tensor as a source in the truncated Einstein equations describes gravitational radiation reaction, such as back-reaction on a roughly spherical black hole. The energy-momentum in a canonical frame is covariantly conserved. The strain to be measured by a distant detector is simply defined.4 revtex pages, stresses radiation rather than wavesGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmologytext