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Realistic models of the Galactic double white dwarf (DWD) population are crucial for testing and quantitatively defining the science objectives of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a future European Space Agency's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-23 Valeriya Korol , Na'ama Hallakoun , Silvia Toonen , Nikolaos Karnesis

Within its observational band the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, LISA, will simultaneously observe orbital modulated waveforms from Galactic white dwarf binaries, a binary black hole produced gravitational-wave background, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-08 Guillaume Boileau , Astrid Lamberts , Nelson Christensen , Neil J. Cornish , Renate Meyer

Neutron star$-$white dwarf (NSWD) binaries are one of the most abundant sources of gravitational waves (GW) in the Milky Way. These GW sources are the evolutionary products of primordial binaries that experienced many processes of binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-11 Jian-Guo He , Yong Shao , Xiao-Jie Xu , Xiang-Dong Li

The detection of gravitational waves emitted by binary black holes raises questions regarding the origin of binaries. There are several models in the literature involving binary evolution in both the field and clusters. We compare the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-25 Maciej Ossowski

Double white dwarf (DWD) binaries are important for studies of common-envelope (CE) evolution, Type Ia supernova progenitors and Galactic sources of low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs). PTF J0533+0209 is a DWD system with a short…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-29 Hai-Liang Chen , Thomas M. Tauris , Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han

A plethora of gravitational wave stochastic backgrounds populate the sensitivity window of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. We show that LISA can detect the anisotropy of the background corresponding to the multipole moments of order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 C. Ungarelli , A. Vecchio

Planets and other low-mass binary companions to stars face a variety of potential fates as their host stars move off the main sequence and grow to subgiants and giants. Stellar mass loss tends to make orbits expand, and tidal torques tend…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 David S. Spiegel

Gravitational radiation from the galactic population of white dwarf binaries is expected to produce a background signal in the LISA frequency band. At frequencies below 1 mHz, this signal is expected to be confusion-limited and has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. J. Benacquista , J. DeGoes , D. Lunder

We study the impact of gas accretion on the orbital evolution of black-hole binaries initially at large separation in the band of the planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We focus on two sources: (i)~stellar-origin black-hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-15 Andrea Caputo , Laura Sberna , Alexandre Toubiana , Stanislav Babak , Enrico Barausse , Sylvain Marsat , Paolo Pani

White dwarfs (WDs) and neutron stars (NSs) are among the most magnetized astrophysical objects in the universe, with magnetic fields that can reach up to $10^9\,\mathrm{G}$ for WDs and up to $10^{15}\,\mathrm{G}$ for NSs. The galaxy is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 Adrien Bourgoin , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte , Stéphane Mathis , Marie-Christine Angonin

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

We investigate the effect of spin-orbit and spin-spin couplings on the estimation of parameters for inspiralling compact binaries of massive black holes, and for neutron stars inspiralling into intermediate-mass black holes, using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Emanuele Berti , Alessandra Buonanno , Clifford M. Will

Galactic white dwarf binaries (WDBs) and black hole binaries (BHBs) will be gravitational wave (GW) sources for LISA. Their detection will provide insights into binary evolution and the evolution of our Galaxy through cosmic history. Here,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-24 Petra Tang , Jan Eldridge , Renate Meyer , Astrid Lamberts , Guillaume Boileau , Wouter van Zeist

It is widely accepted that quite a number of double compact objects (DCOs) in the Milky Way can be identified by future space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors, while systematic investigations on the detection of the GW sources in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-18 Jian-Guo He , Yong Shao , Shi-Jie Gao , Xiang-Dong Li

Galactic binaries with orbital periods less than $\approx$1 hr are strong gravitational wave sources in the mHz regime, ideal for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). In fact, theory predicts that \emph{LISA} will resolve tens of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-04 Thomas Kupfer , Mukremin Kilic , Tom Maccarone , Eric Burns , Chris L. Fryer , Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge

The possibility that Galactic halo MACHOs are white dwarfs has recently attracted much attention. Using the known properties of white dwarf binaries in the Galactic disk as a model, we estimate the possible contribution of halo white dwarf…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 William A. Hiscock , Shane L. Larson , Joshua R. Routzahn , Ben Kulick

The upcoming LISA mission will be able to detect gravitational waves from galactic and extragalactic compact binaries. Here, we report on LISA's capability to probe dark matter around these binaries if the latter constitute black holes. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-17 Sohan Ghodla

The propagation speed of gravitational waves, $c_T$, has been tightly constrained by the binary neutron star merger GW170817 and its electromagnetic counterpart, under the assumption of a frequency-independent $c_T$. Drawing upon arguments…

Close white dwarf binaries play an important role across a range of astrophysics, including thermonuclear supernovae, the Galactic low-frequency gravitational wave signal, and the chemical evolution of the Galaxy. Progress in developing a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-13 K. Inight , B. T. Gaensicke , E. Breedt , T. R. Marsh , A. F. Pala , R. Raddi

In the Galaxy, close binaries with compact objects are important low-frequency gravitational wave (GW) sources. As potential low-frequency GW sources, neutron star/white dwarf (WD) ultra-compact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) have been investigated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Ke Qin , Long Jiang , Wen-Cong Chen