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Gravitational wave detectors in space, particularly the LISA project, can study a rich variety of astronomical systems whose gravitational radiation is not detectable from the ground, because it is emitted in the low-frequency gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. F. Schutz

The nature of the progenitors of type Ia supernovae is still a mystery. While plausible candidates are known for both the single degenerate and double degenerate models, the observed numbers fall significantly short of what is required to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kelly Lepo , Marten van Kerkwijk

Observations of binaries containing pairs of neutron stars using the upcoming space-based gravitational wave observatory, LISA, have the potential to improve our understanding of neutron star physics and binary evolution. In this work we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Anatole Storck , Ross Church

The cosmic distance scale is built on multiple different techniques for estimating distances in space that are often connected and dependent on multiple measurements and assumptions. Double white dwarf binaries (DWDs) are common objects and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-12 Yuetong Zhao , L. Hellström , Siqi Zhang , M. Giersz , A. Askar , Youjun Lu , Zhoujian Cao , D. Belloni , G. Wiktorowicz , M. Górski

Close binaries consisting of a main sequence star and a white dwarf are considered as candidates for Type~Ia supernova progenitors. We present selfconsistent calculations of the time dependence of the structure of the main sequence star,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Langer , A. Deutschmann , S. Wellstein , P. Hoeflich

The dynamical tide can play an important role in the orbital motion of close eccentric double white dwarf binaries. As the launching of the space-based gravitational-wave detector, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), is just…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 Shu Yan Lau , Kent Yagi , Phil Arras

Recent studies have revealed the contribution of extragalactic DWD to the astrophysical SGWB could be detectable in the mHz regime by LISA. Conversely, the presence of this SGWB could hamper the detection of cosmological SGWB, which are one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Guillaume Boileau , Tristan Bruel , Alexandre Toubiana , Astrid Lamberts , Nelson Christensen

The binary systems consisting of a Be star and a white dwarf (BeWDs) are very interesting.They can originate from the binaries composed of a Be star and a subdwarf O or B star (BesdOBs), and they can merge into red giants via luminous red…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-06 ChunHua Zhu , GuoLiang Lü , Xizhen Lu , Jie He

Results are presented for a Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys high-resolution imaging campaign of 90 white dwarfs with known or suspected low mass stellar and substellar companions. Of the 72 targets which remain candidate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-06 J. Farihi , D. W. Hoard , S. Wachter

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

Recent detection of gravitational wave from nine black hole merger events and one neutron star merger event by LIGO and VIRGO shed a new light in the field of astrophysics. On the other hand, in the past decade, a few super-Chandrasekhar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Surajit Kalita , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

When a star exhausts its nuclear fuel, it either explodes as a supernova or more quiescently becomes a white dwarf, an object about half the mass of our Sun with a radius of about that of the Earth. About one fifth of white dwarfs exhibit…

Gravitational waves have been shown to provide new constraints on gravitational theories beyond general relativity (GR), especially in the strong field regime. Gravitational wave signals from galactic double white dwarfs, expected to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-27 Shu Yan Lau , Kent Yagi , Phil Arras

Galactic short period double white dwarfs (DWD) are guaranteed gravitational wave (GW) sources for the next generation of space-based interferometers sensitive to low-frequency GWs (10^{-4}- 1 Hz). Here we investigate the possibility of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 Francesca Valsecchi , Will M. Farr , Bart Willems , Christopher J. Deloye andVicky Kalogera

Radio emission has been detected from tens of white dwarfs, in particular in accreting systems. Additionally, radio emission has been predicted as a possible outcome of a planetary system around a white dwarf. We searched for 3 GHz radio…

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

Context. Galactic binaries account for the loudest combined continuous gravitational wave signal in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) band, which spans a frequency range of 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. Aims. A superposition of low frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-18 Kristen Lackeos , Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil J. Cornish , James I. Thorpe

We investigate the possibility of detecting planetary or stellar companions orbiting white dwarf binaries using the LISA gravitational radiation detector. Specifically, we consider the acceleration of the barycenter of the white dwarf…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 Jason H. Steffen , Dong-Hong Wu , Shane L. Larson

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will feature a prominent anisotropic astrophysical stochastic gravitational wave signal, arising from the tens of millions of unresolved mHz white dwarf binaries in the Milky Way: the Galactic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-27 Alexander W. Criswell , Steven Rieck , Vuk Mandic

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will explore the source-rich milli-Hertz band of the gravitational wave spectrum. In contrast to ground based detectors, where typical signals are short-lived and discrete, LISA signals are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-09 Travis Robson , Neil Cornish