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Galactic compact binaries with orbital periods shorter than a few hours emit detectable gravitational waves at low frequencies. Their gravitational wave signals can be detected with the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).…

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) guarantees the detection of gravitational waves by monitoring a handful of known nearby galactic binary systems, the so-called ``verification binaries''. We consider the most updated information…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Stroeer , A. Vecchio

Some electromagnetically observed ultra-compact binaries will be strong gravitational wave sources for space-based detectors like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). These sources have historically been referred to as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-05 Tyson B. Littenberg , Ananthu K. Lali

In the context of the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, galactic binary systems of white dwarfs and neutron stars will represent the dominant source of Gravitational Waves (GWs) within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-28 Adrien Bourgoin , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte , Stéphane Mathis , Marie-Christine Angonin

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based observatory to measure gravitational waves in the millihertz frequency band. This frequency band is expected to be dominated by signals from millions of Galactic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Cédric Schmelzbach , Simon C. Stähler , Domenico Giardini

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 ultra compact binaries are expected to be the dominant source of gravitational waves in the milli-Hertz frequency band. Of the tens of millions of galactic binaries with periods shorter than an hour, it is estimated that a few tens…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Tyson Littenberg , Neil Cornish , Kristen Lackeos , Travis Robson

The observation of massive black hole binary systems is one of the main science objectives of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The instrument's design requirements have recently been revised: they set a requirement at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-05 Geraint Pratten , Antoine Klein , Christopher J. Moore , Hannah Middleton , Nathan Steinle , Patricia Schmidt , Alberto Vecchio

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which is currently under construction, is designed to measure gravitational wave signals in the milli-Hertz frequency band. It is expected that tens of millions of Galactic binaries will be the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Cedric Schmelzbach , Simon C. Stähler , Domenico Giardini

The LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission will observe in the low frequency band from 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. In this regime, we expect the galactic binaries to be the dominant (by number) sources of gravitational waves signal.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-15 Adrien Bourgoin , Etienne Savalle , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte , Stéphane Mathis , Marie-Christine Angonin , Antoine Strugarek

Ultracompact Galactic binaries with orbital periods below an hour are among the strongest persistent gravitational-wave (GW) sources in the mHz band and will constitute the dominant population detected by the Laser Interferometer Space…

I review the expected Galactic sources of gravitational waves, concentrating on the low-frequency domain and summarise the current observational and theoretical knowledge we have. A model for the Galactic population of close binaries, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Nelemans

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

Space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors, such as LISA, are expected to detect thousands of Galactic close white dwarf binaries emitting nearly monochromatic GWs. In this study, we demonstrate that LISA is reasonably likely to detect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-13 Naoki Seto

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space-based gravitational wave telescope with the goal of measuring gravitational waves in the milli-Hertz frequency band, which is dominated by millions of Galactic binaries. While…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-11 Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Cédric Schmelzbach , Simon C. Stähler , Domenico Giardini

Double white dwarfs (DWDs) will be the most numerous gravitational-wave (GW) sources for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Most of the Galactic DWDs will be unresolved and will superpose to form a confusion noise foreground,…

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

The upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect a large gravitational-wave foreground of Galactic white dwarf binaries. These sources are exceptional for their probable detection at electromagnetic wavelengths, some long…

We describe a simple framework to assess the LISA scientific performance (more specifically, its sensitivity and expected parameter-estimation precision for prescribed gravitational-wave signals) under the assumption of failure of one or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Michele Vallisneri , Jeff Crowder , Massimo Tinto
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