The scalar field measured in Rindler sector of the expanding
inertial reference frame is the linear superposition
The key to identifying the nature of these fields is the evaluation of the mode sum over and the mode integral over . These evaluations have been done already starting with Eq.(42), and gave rise to the familiar causal unit impulse response, Eq.(43). However, for the purpose of physical transparency we shall not make these evaluations. Instead, we shall make an evaluation which is based on the assumption that each source is small compared to its radiated wave lengths . Physically this means that the phase of the e.m. field is the same across the whole extent of the source. Mathematically this means that the Bessel function should be replaced by the expression Eq.(46) below. The advantage of the long wave length approximation is physical/technological: it permits the characterization of the source in terms of multipole moments, which are directly tied to the angular distribution of the emitted radiation, and which derive their importance from, among others, the quantum mechanical selection rules.