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A significant fraction of compact-object mergers in galactic nuclei are expected to be eccentric in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) frequency sensitivity range, $10^{-4} - 10^{-1}\ \rm Hz$. Several compact binaries detected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-04 Evgeni Grishin , Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Alessandro A. Trani

I present an overview of the Galactic binaries that form the foreground for the ESA/NASA Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The currently known population is discussed, as well as current and near-future large-scale surveys that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-21 G. Nelemans

Galactic double white dwarf (DWD) binaries are among the guaranteed sources for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), an upcoming space-based gravitational wave (GW) detector. Most DWDs in the LISA band are far from merging and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-26 Reza Ebadi , Vladimir Strokov , Erwin H. Tanin , Emanuele Berti , Ronald L. Walsworth

The next decade is expected to see the launch of one or more space based gravitational wave detectors: the European lead Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA); and one or more Chinese mission concepts, Taiji and TianQin. One of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-16 Neil J. Cornish

Double white dwarfs are expected to be a source of confusion-limited noise for the future gravitational wave observatory LISA. In a specific frequency range, this 'foreground noise' is predicted to rise above the instrumental noise and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 A. J. Ruiter , K. Belczynski , M. Benacquista , S. L. Larson , G. Williams

Recently, Tamanini & Danielski (2019) discussed the possibility to detect circumbinary exoplanets (CBPs) orbiting double white dwarfs (DWDs) with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Extending their methods and criteria, we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-19 Yacheng Kang , Chang Liu , Lijing Shao

The inspirals and mergers of compact binaries are among the most promising events for ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories. The detection of electromagnetic (EM) signals from these sources would provide complementary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Samaya M. Nissanke , Jonathan L. Sievers , Neal Dalal , Daniel E. Holz

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based gravitational wave telescope with the goal of measuring gravitational waves in the milli-Hertz frequency band, which is dominated by millions of Galactic binaries. While…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Cédric Schmelzbach , Simon C. Stähler , Domenico Giardini

Double white dwarfs (DWDs) will be the most numerous gravitational-wave (GW) sources for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Most of the Galactic DWDs will be unresolved and will superpose to form a confusion noise foreground,…

Stellar mass black hole binaries have individual masses between 10-80 solar masses. These systems may emit gravitational waves at frequencies detectable at Megaparsec distances by space-based gravitational wave observatories. In a previous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Matthew Benacquista , Jesus Hinojosa , Alberto Mata , Krzysztof Belczynski

Globular clusters house a population of compact binaries that will be interesting gravitational wave sources for LISA. We provide estimates for the numbers of sources of several categories and discuss the sensitivity of LISA to detecting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 M J Benacquista , S Portegies Zwart , F A Rasio

LISA will detect $\sim \! 10^4$ Galactic binaries, the majority being double white dwarfs. However, approximately $\sim \! 1 \textrm{--} 5 \%$ of these systems will contain neutron stars which, if they can be correctly identified, will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-11 Christopher J. Moore , Eliot Finch , Antoine Klein , Valeriya Korol , Nhat Pham , Daniel Robins

We investigate the detectability of single-event coalescing black hole binaries with total mass of $100-600 M_{\odot}$ at cosmological distances ($5 \lesssim z \lesssim 20$) with the next generation of terrestrial gravitational wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-30 Stephen Fairhurst , Cameron Mills , Monica Colpi , Raffaella Schneider , Alberto Sesana , Alessandro Trinca , Rosa Valiante

With current terrestrial gravitational wave detectors working at initial design sensitivities, and upgrades and space missions planned, it is likely that in the next five to ten years gravitational radiation will be detected directly from a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Coleman Miller

Gravitational-wave observations of compact binaries have the potential to uncover the distribution of masses and angular momenta of black holes and neutron stars in the universe. The binary components' physical parameters can be inferred…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Mark Hannam , Duncan A. Brown , Stephen Fairhurst , Chris L. Fryer , Ian W. Harry

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect close white dwarf binaries (CWDBs) through their gravitational radiation. Around 3000 binaries will be spectrally resolved at frequencies > 3 mHz, and their positions on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Asantha Cooray , Alison J. Farmer , Naoki Seto

We discuss the stochastic background of gravitational waves from ultra compact neutron star-white dwarf (NS-WD) binaries at cosmological distances. Under the assumption that accreting neutron stars and donor white dwarf stars form most of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Asantha Cooray

The upcoming LISA mission is the only experiment that will allow us to study the Milky Way's structure using gravitational wave signals from Galactic double white dwarfs (DWDs). The total number of expected detections exceeds $10^5$.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-10 Valeriya Korol , Elena Maria Rossi , Enrico Barausse

Wide, highly eccentric ($e>0.9$) compact binaries can naturally arise as progenitors of gravitational wave (GW) mergers. These systems are expected to have a significant population in the mHz band (e.g., $\sim 3-45$ detectable stellar-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Zeyuan Xuan , Smadar Naoz , Alvin K. Y. Li , Bence Kocsis , Erik Petigura , Alan M. Knee , Jess McIver , Kyle Kremer , Will M. Farr

Double white dwarf binaries in the Galaxy dominate the gravitational wave sky and would be detectable for an instrument such as LISA. Most studies have calculated the expected gravitational wave signal under the assumption that the binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 D. van den Broek , G. Nelemans , M. Dan , S. Rosswog