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No. A motionless isolated point mass produces a static gravitational field. All its mass multipole moments are time independent, so there is no outgoing gravitational radiation. In the quadrupole formula,

h_{ij}^{TT} \propto d^{2} Q_{ij}^{TT} / d t^{2} = 0

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