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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

An extreme-mass-ratio system composed of a white dwarf (WD) and a massive black hole can be observed by the low-frequency gravitational wave detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). When the mass of the black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-06 Wen-Biao Han , Xi-Long Fan

Gravitational waves (GWs) from the galactic double white dwarf (DWD) systems are one of the primary targets for upcoming space-based detectors. Due to their vast abundance and widespread distribution throughout the Galactic disk and bulge,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-16 Yan Sun , Yong Yuan , Minghui Du , Wen-Fan Feng , Xilong Fan , Peng Xu

We report the discovery of ZTF J2243+5242, an eclipsing double white dwarf binary with an orbital period of just $8.8$ minutes, the second known eclipsing binary with an orbital period less than ten minutes. The system likely consists of…

The space gravitational wave detector LISA is expected to detect $\sim10^4$ of nearly monochromatic binaries, after $\sim 10$\.yr operation. We propose to measure the inspiral/outspiral binary fluxes in the frequency space, by processing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Naoki Seto

We present high-speed ULTRACAM and SOFI photometry and X-shooter spectroscopy of the recently discovered 94 minute orbital period eclipsing white dwarf / main-sequence binary SDSS J085746.18+034255.3 (CSS 03170) and use these observations…

In this follow-up paper, we continue our study of the effect of using knowledge from electromagnetic observations in the gravitational wave (GW) data analysis of Galactic binaries that are predicted to be observed by the new \textit{Laser…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Sweta Shah , Gijs Nelemans , Marc van der Sluys

Short-period double white dwarf (DWD) binaries will be the most prolific source of gravitational waves (GWs) for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). DWDs with GW frequencies below $\sim1$ mHz will be the dominant contributor to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Sarah Thiele , Katelyn Breivik , Robyn E. Sanderson , Rodrigo Luger

We present data analysis methods used in detection and the estimation of parameters of gravitational wave signals from the white dwarf binaries in the mock LISA data challenge. Our main focus is on the analysis of challenge 3.1, where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-23 Arkadiusz Błaut , Stanislav Babak , Andrzej Królak

The recently discovered J0651+2844 is a detached, eclipsing white dwarf binary with an orbital period of 765 s. We investigate the prospects for the detection of gravitational radiation from this system and estimate the effect of the tidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Matthew Benacquista

We present the discovery of 17 double white dwarf (WD) binaries from our on-going search for extremely low mass (ELM) <0.3 Msun WDs, objects that form from binary evolution. Gaia parallax provides a new means of target selection that we use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-08 Warren R. Brown , Mukremin Kilic , Alekzander Kosakowski , A. Gianninas

Dynamical tides can provide us vital information about the properties of neutron star (NS) matter. This is particularly true for g-modes, whose frequency and tidal coupling are highly sensitive to the composition of NSs, especially in their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-18 János Takátsy , Lorenz Zwick , Pankaj Saini , Johan Samsing

Mergers of binaries comprised of compact objects can give rise to explosive transient events, heralding the birth of exotic objects which cannot be formed through single star evolution. Using a large number of direct N-body simulations, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Giacomo Fragione , Brian D. Metzger , Rosalba Perna , Nathan W. C. Leigh , Bence Kocsis

In this work, we investigate the impact of tidal torques and mass transfer on the population of double white dwarfs (DWDs) that will be observed with LISA. Starting from a distribution of DWDs at formation predicted by numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 Alexandre Toubiana , Nikolaos Karnesis , Astrid Lamberts , M. Coleman Miller

Double white dwarfs could be important sources for space based gravitational wave detectors like OMEGA and LISA. We use population synthesis to predict the current population of double white dwarfs in the Galaxy and the gravitational waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Nelemans , S. F. Portegies Zwart , F. Verbunt

Double white dwarf (DWD) binaries are expected to be very common in the Milky Way, but their intrinsic faintness challenges the detection of these systems. Currently, only a few tens of detached DWDs are know. Such systems offer the best…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 Valeriya Korol , Elena M. Rossi , Paul J. Groot , Gijs Nelemans , Silvia Toonen , Anthony G. A. Brown

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…

While dynamical tides only become relevant during the last couple of orbits for circular inspirals, orbital eccentricity can increase their impact during earlier phases of the inspiral by exciting tidal oscillations at each close encounter.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-07 János Takátsy , Bence Kocsis , Péter Kovács

A decrease in the orbital period of the ultrashort-period binary white dwarf \ZTF, which is one of the Galactic verification binaries in the millihertz frequency range for planned space laser interferometers, has been measured. Based on…

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