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Accreting Double white dwarf binaries: Implications for LISA

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2017-09-13 v2 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We explore the long-term evolution of mass-transferring white dwarf binaries undergoing both direct-impact and disk accretion and explore implications of such systems to gravitational wave astronomy. We cover a broad range of initial component masses and show that these systems, the majority of which lie within the LISA sensitivity range, exhibit prominent negative orbital frequency evolution (chirp) for a significant fraction of their lifetimes. Using a galactic population synthesis, we predict ~27002700 double white dwarfs will be observable by LISA with negative chirps less than 0.1 yr2-0.1\ yr^{-2}. We also show that detections of mass-transferring double white dwarf systems by LISA may provide astronomers with unique ways of probing the physics governing close compact object binaries.

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@article{arxiv.1707.01104,
  title  = {Accreting Double white dwarf binaries: Implications for LISA},
  author = {Kyle Kremer and Katelyn Breivik and Shane L. Larson and Vassiliki Kalogera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.01104},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Accepted in The Astrophysical Journal

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