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White dwarf main-sequence (WDMS) binaries provide important laboratories for studying binary evolution and the formation of low-mass white dwarfs. In this work, we identify 654 reliable WDMS candidates with FGK-type companions from an…

The Mock LISA Data Challenges (MLDCs) have the dual purpose of fostering the development of LISA data analysis tools and capabilities, and demonstrating the technical readiness already achieved by the gravitational-wave community in…

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 present a complete pipeline for detecting and characterizing gravitational waves (GWs) produced by the inspiral of stellar-mass binary black holes in data from the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The analysis framework relies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-25 Diganta Bandopadhyay , Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird , Alberto Vecchio

We report on the performance of an end-to-end Bayesian analysis pipeline for detecting and characterizing galactic binary signals in simulated LISA data. Our principal analysis tool is the Blocked-Annealed Metropolis Hasting (BAM)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jeff Crowder , Neil J. Cornish

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open a new observational window in the millihertz gravitational-wave band, enabling the detection of tens of thousands of compact stellar remnant binaries across the Milky Way. Most of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-09 Irwin Khai Cheng Tay , Valeriya Korol , Thibault Lechien

We consider the general problem of estimating the inflight LISA noise power spectra and cross-spectra, which are needed for detecting and estimating the gravitational wave signals present in the LISA data. For the LISA baseline design and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien Sylvestre , Massimo Tinto

One of the main sources of gravitational waves for the LISA space-borne interferometer are galactic binary systems. The waveforms for these sources are represented by eight parameters, of which four are extrinsic, and four are intrinsic to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Neil J. Cornish , Edward K. Porter

Future space-based laser interferometric detectors, such as LISA, will be able to detect gravitational waves (GWs) generated during the inspiral phase of stellar-mass binary black holes (SmBBHs). The detection and characterization of GWs…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 Yao Fu , Yan Wang , Soumya D. Mohanty

Large amount of observational spectroscopic data are recently available from different observational projects, like Sloan Digital Sky Survey. It's become more urgent to identify white dwarfs stars based on data itself i.e. without modelling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-14 Mirosław Należyty , Agnieszka Majczyna , Anna Ciechanowska , Jerzy Madej

We present a method to reliably select variable white dwarfs from large area time domain surveys and apply this method in a pilot study to search for pulsating white dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82. From a sample 400…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-29 Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo , J. J. Hermes , Boris T. Gänsicke

We present a Bayesian parameter-estimation pipeline to measure the properties of inspiralling stellar-mass black hole binaries with LISA. Our strategy (i) is based on the coherent analysis of the three noise-orthogonal LISA data streams,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-23 Riccardo Buscicchio , Antoine Klein , Elinore Roebber , Christopher J. Moore , Davide Gerosa , Eliot Finch , Alberto Vecchio

Coalescing binary black holes (BBHs) are among the most likely sources for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and its international partners Virgo and KAGRA. Optimal searches for BBHs require accurate waveforms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-10 Duncan A. Brown , Prayush Kumar , Alexander H. Nitz

Bayesian analysis of LISA data sets based on Markov chain Monte Carlo methods has been shown to be a challenging problem, in part due to the complicated structure of the likelihood function consisting of several isolated local maxima that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Miquel Trias , Alberto Vecchio , John Veitch

Maximizing the number of detections in matched filter searches for compact binary coalescence (CBC) gravitational wave (GW) signals requires a model of the source population distribution. In previous searches using the PyCBC framework,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-13 Praveen Kumar , Thomas Dent

This article is an introduction for the nonpractitioner to the ideas and issues of LISA data analysis, as reflected in the explorations and experiments of the participants in the Mock LISA Data Challenges. In particular, I discuss the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-27 Michele Vallisneri

We present the first discoveries of the double-lined double white dwarf (DBL) survey that targets over-luminous sources with respect to the canonical white dwarf cooling sequence according to a set of well-defined criteria. The primary goal…

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is a proposed space mission, which will use coherent laser beams exchanged between three remote spacecraft to detect and study low-frequency cosmic gravitational radiation. In the low-part of its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Jeffrey A. Edlund , Massimo Tinto , Andrzej Krolak , Gijs Nelemans

Galactic short-period close white dwarf binaries (CWDBs) are important objects for space-borne gravitational-wave (GW) detectors in the millihertz frequency bands. Due to the intrinsically low luminosity, only about 25 identified CWDBs are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-07 Liangliang Ren , Chengyuan Li , Bo Ma , Sihao Cheng , Shun-Jia Huang , Baitian Tang , Yi-ming Hu

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,…