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Exploring the Orbital Alignments of Galactic Close White Dwarf Binaries with LISA

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2024-10-31 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Using the proposed space gravitational wave detector LISA, we will be able to measure the geometrical configurations of 104\sim 10^4 close white dwarf binaries in our Galaxy. The obtained data will be an entirely new resource to examine the randomness of their orbital orientations. Partly motivated by a recent reported on the systematic alignments of bulge planetary nebulae, we discuss the outlook of the orientational analysis with LISA. We find that a quadrupole pattern as small as 0.05\sim 0.05 can be detected for bulge white dwarf binaries, owing to their large available number. From such a pattern analysis, we might geometrically explore fossil records in our Galaxy billions of years ago.

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@article{arxiv.2404.13313,
  title  = {Exploring the Orbital Alignments of Galactic Close White Dwarf Binaries with LISA},
  author = {Naoki Seto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.13313},
  year   = {2024}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures, updated