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Tidal interactions can play an important role as compact white dwarf (WD) binaries are driven together by gravitational waves (GWs). This will modify the strain evolution measured by future space-based GW detectors and impact the potential…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Anthony L. Piro

Upcoming space-based gravitational-wave detectors will be sensitive to millions and resolve tens of thousands of stellar-mass binary systems at mHz frequencies. The vast majority of these will be double white dwarfs in our Galaxy. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-21 Riccardo Buscicchio , Antoine Klein , Valeriya Korol , Francesco Di Renzo , Christopher J. Moore , Davide Gerosa , Alessandro Carzaniga

White dwarfs (WDs) are powerful tools to study the evolutionary history of stars and binaries in the Galaxy. But do we understand their multiplicity from a theoretical point of view? This can be tested by a comparison with the sample of WDs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 S. Toonen , M. Hollands , B. T. Gaensicke , T. Boekholt

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 detection of gravitational waves (GWs) has led to a deeper understanding of binaries of ordinary astrophysical objects, including neutron stars and black holes. In this work, we point out that binary systems may also exist in a dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Yang Bai , Sida Lu , Nicholas Orlofsky

In the coming decade, the millihertz gravitational wave observatory LISA will provide the best constraints yet on the tens of thousands of close white dwarf binaries in the Milky Way, yielding unprecedented insights into the most abundant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Kyle Kremer , Katelyn Breivik , Claire S. Ye

The millihertz band is densely populated by continuous gravitational-wave signals from Galactic compact binaries, dominated by double white dwarfs (DWDs; binaries of two white dwarfs) with contributions from systems containing neutron stars…

This paper reports a comprehensive study on the gravitational wave (GW) background from compact binary coalescences. We consider in our calculations newly available observation-based neutron star and black hole mass distributions and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-20 Xing-Jiang Zhu , Eric J. Howell , David G. Blair , Zong-Hong Zhu

Detached, inspiraling and semi-detached, mass-transferring double white dwarf (DWD) binary systems are both expected to be important sources for the proposed space-based gravitational-wave detector, LISA. The mass-radius relationship of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ravi Kumar Kopparapu , Joel E. Tohline

Coalescing compact binaries emitting gravitational wave (GW) signals, as recently detected by the Advanced LIGO-Virgo network, constitute a population over the multi-dimensional space of component masses and spins, redshift, and other…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Sebastian M. Gaebel , John Veitch , Thomas Dent , Will M. Farr

The Galaxy is suspected to contain hundreds of millions of binary white dwarf systems, a large fraction of which will have sufficiently small orbital period to emit gravitational radiation in band for space-based gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Tyson B. Littenberg

Galactic double white dwarfs are predominant sources of gravitational waves in the millihertz frequencies accessible to space-borne gravitational wave detectors. With advances in multi-messenger astronomy, an increasing number of double…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-06 Hong-Ming Jin , Bo Ma , Yong Shao , Yan Wang

The gigaelectronvolt $\gamma$-ray excess observed towards the Galactic centre remains unexplained. While dark matter annihilation has long been considered a leading explanation, an alternative scenario involving a large population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-23 Valeriya Korol , Andrei Igoshev

We discuss the possibility that galactic gravitational wave sources might give burst signals at a rate of several events per year, detectable by state-of-the-art detectors. We are stimulated by the results of the data collected by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-17 Eugenio Coccia , Florian Dubath , Michele Maggiore

This study investigates the conditions under which gravitational waves (GWs) are emitted during the merger of hot white dwarfs (WDs) in a binary system. Traditionally, these systems consist of two low-mass stars or a more massive WD paired…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 Sílvia P. Nunes , José D. V. Arbañil , César H. Lenzi , Jaziel G. Coelho

Close binaries of double white dwarfs (DWDs) inspiral and merge by emitting gravitational wave (GW). Orbital motion of some of these binaries are expected to be observed at low frequency band by space-borne laser interferometric detectors…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-13 Shin'ichirou Yoshida

The inner $500\rm pc$ in the galactic center is dense with stars and a dynamically hot environment. Here, we focus on wide binaries as a source of tidally or collisional interactions. These binaries were previously ignored as sources of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-05 Erez Michaely , Smadar Naoz

Almost every galaxy has a supermassive black hole (SMBH) residing at its center, the Milky Way included. Recent studies suggest that these unique places are expected to host a high abundance of stellar and compact object binaries. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 Huiyi Wang , Alexander P. Stephan , Smadar Naoz , Bao-Minh Hoang , Katelyn Breivik

Galactic nuclei are densely populated by stellar mass compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars. Bound, highly eccentric binaries form as a result of gravitational wave (GW) losses during close flybys between these objects. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-10 Bence Kocsis , Janna Levin

Compact object binaries, mostly double with dwarfs, are believed to be a potential source of confusion-limited noise for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). In a specific frequency range, this noise may rise above the…