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The dynamical formation channels of gravitational wave (GW) sources typically involve a stage when the compact object binary source interacts with the environment, which may excite its eccentricity, yielding efficient GW emission. For the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Zeyuan Xuan , Smadar Naoz , Bence Kocsis , Erez Michaely

Coalescing binaries in distant galaxies are one of the most promising sources of gravitational waves detectable by the LIGO project.$^{[1-5]}$ They are also a copious source of neutrinos,$^{[1]}$ however these neutrino pulses are far too…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Christopher S. Kochanek , Tsvi Piran

The space-based gravitational wave (GW) detector LISA is expected to observe signals from a large population of compact object binaries, comprised predominantly of white dwarfs, in the Milky Way. Resolving individual sources from this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-14 Xue-Hao Zhang , Soumya D. Mohanty , Xiao-Bo Zou , Yu-Xiao Liu

We evaluate the prospects for radio follow-up of the double neutron stars (DNSs) in the Galactic disk that could be detected through future space-borne gravitational wave (GW) detectors. We first simulate the DNS population in the Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Wen-Fan Feng , Jie-Wen Chen , Yan Wang , Soumya D. Mohanty , Yong Shao

We use population synthesis modelling to predict the gravitational wave (GW) signal that the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect from the Galactic population of compact binary systems. We implement a realistic star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 Jake McMillan , Adam Ingram , Cordelia Dashwood Brown , Andrei Igoshev , Matthew Middleton , Grzegorz Wiktorowicz , Simone Scaringi

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

The upcoming LISA mission offers the unique opportunity to study the Milky Way through gravitational wave radiation from Galactic binaries. Among the variety of Galactic gravitational wave sources, LISA is expected to individually resolve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-26 Valeriya Korol , Elena M. Rossi , Enrico Barausse

The prime candidate sources for the upcoming space-borne gravitational wave (GW) observatory LISA are the numerous Galactic tight binaries of white dwarfs (WDs) and neutron stars (NSs), many of which will coalesce and undergo mass transfer,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Thomas M. Tauris

With the discovery of both binary black hole mergers and a binary neutron star merger the field of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics has really begun. The current advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors are laser interferometers that will improve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Gijs Nelemans

We analyse the energy spectral density properties of Gravitational waves from Galactic binary populations in the~\text{mHz} band targeted by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission. Our analysis is based on combining BPASS with a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-15 Petra Tang , Renate Meyer , Jan Eldridge

In this thesis we consider the data analysis problem of detecting gravitational waves emitted by inspiraling binary systems. Detection of gravitational waves will open a new window on the Universe enabling direct detection of systems such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-10 Gareth Jones

LISA is a planned space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector that would be sensitive to waves from low-frequency sources, in the band of roughly (0.03 - 0.1) mHz < f < 0.1 Hz. This is expected to be an extremely rich chunk of the GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-11-02 Scott A. Hughes

Dark matter could be composed of compact dark objects (CDOs). A close binary of CDOs orbiting in the interior of solar system bodies can be a loud source of gravitational waves (GWs) for the LIGO and VIRGO detectors. We perform the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-18 C. J. Horowitz , M. A. Papa , S. Reddy

White dwarf binaries are the most common compact binaries in the Universe and are especially important for low-frequency gravitational wave detectors such as LISA. There are a number of open questions about binary evolution and the Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Nelemans

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

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 observation of low-frequency gravitational waves with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna will allow the study of new sources of gravitational radiation that are not accessible by ground-based instruments. Gravitational wave sources…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Tyson B. Littenberg , Nicolas Yunes

A new generation of ground-based interferometric detectors for gravitational waves is currently under construction or has entered the commissioning phase (LIGO, VIRGO, GEO600, TAMA). We study the most promising candidate sources for these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Krzysztof Belczynski , Vassiliki Kalogera , Tomasz Bulik

Short-period (P<1 hour) white dwarf binaries will be the most numerous sources for the space-based gravitational wave detector LISA. Based on thousands of resolved systems, we will be able to constrain binary evolution and provide a new map…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 Astrid Lamberts , Sarah Blunt , Tyson Littenberg , Shea Garrison-Kimmel , Thomas Kupfer , Robyn Sanderson

TianQin and LISA are space-based laser interferometer gravitational wave (GW) detectors planned to be launched in the mid-2030s. Both detectors will detect low-frequency GWs around $10^{-2}\,{\rm Hz}$, however, TianQin is more sensitive to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-04 Alejandro Torres-Orjuela , Shun-Jia Huang , Zheng-Cheng Liang , Shuai Liu , Hai-Tian Wang , Chang-Qing Ye , Yi-Ming Hu , Jianwei Mei