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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

I propose a method to detect planets around compact binaries that are strong sources of gravitational radiation. This approach is to measure gravitational-wave phase modulations induced by the planets, and its prospect is studied with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 Naoki Seto

We anticipate that the data acquired by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be dominated by the gravitational wave signals from several astrophysical populations. The analysis of these data is a new challenge and is the main…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-16 Senwen Deng , Stanislav Babak , Maude Le Jeune , Sylvain Marsat , Éric Plagnol , Andrea Sartirana

The magnitudes of the external gravitational perturbations associated with the normal modes of the Sun are evaluated to determine whether these solar oscillations could be observed with the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-09 Curt Cutler , Lee Lindblom

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, scheduled for launch in the early 2030s, is a gravitational wave observatory in space designed to detect sources emitting in the milli-Hertz band. In contrast to the present ground…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Nikolaos Karnesis , Stanislav Babak , Mauro Pieroni , Neil Cornish , Tyson Littenberg

The formation of compact stellar-mass binaries is a difficult, but interesting problem in astrophysics. There are two main formation channels: In the field via binary star evolution, or in dense stellar systems via dynamical interactions.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Xian Chen , Pau Amaro-Seoane

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover tens of millions of quasars. A significant fraction of these could be powered by coalescing massive black hole (MBH) binaries, since many…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Chengcheng Xin , Zoltan Haiman

Massive black hole binary systems are among the most interesting sources for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA); gravitational radiation emitted during the last year of in-spiral could be detectable with a very large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Alberto Vecchio

General relativity predicts that short orbital period binaries emit significant gravitational radiation, and the upcoming Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect tens of thousands of such systems; however, few have…

A populations of stellar mass black hole binaries may exist in globular clusters. The dynamics of globular cluster evolution imply that there may be at most one black hole binary is a globular cluster. The population of binaries are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. J. Benacquista

The planned space-based gravitational wave detector, LISA, will provide a fundamentally new means of studying the orbital alignment of close white dwarf binaries. However, due to the inherent symmetry of their gravitational wave signals, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-13 Naoki Seto

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…

Observations of binaries containing pairs of neutron stars using the upcoming space-based gravitational wave observatory, LISA, have the potential to improve our understanding of neutron star physics and binary evolution. In this work we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Anatole Storck , Ross Church

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be able to detect massive black hole mergers throughout the visible Universe. These observations will provide unique information about black hole formation and growth, and the role black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Neil J. Cornish , Kevin Shuman

LISA is a proposed space-based laser interferometer detecting gravitational waves by measuring distances between free-floating test masses housed in three satellites in a triangular constellation with laser links in-between. Each satellite…

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

We extend and improve earlier estimates of the ability of the proposed LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) gravitational wave detector to place upper bounds on the graviton mass, m_g, by comparing the arrival times of gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Curt Cutler , William A. Hiscock , Shane L. Larson

Large-scale (i.e., $\gtrsim {\rm kpc}$) and micro-Gauss scale magnetic fields have been observed throughout the Milky Way and nearby galaxies. These fields depend on the geometry and matter-energy composition, can display complicated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-01 Anuraag Reddy , Nathan Steinle , Samar Safi-Harb , Jo-Anne Brown

At present, 19 double neutron star (DNS) systems are detected by radio timing and 2 merging DNS systems are detected by kilo-hertz gravitational waves. Because of selection effects, none of them has an orbital period $P_b$ in the range of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-10 Xueli Miao , Heng Xu , Lijing Shao , Chang Liu , Bo-Qiang Ma

Triple star systems are critical for understanding stellar dynamics and compact objects in astrophysics, yet confirmed hierarchical triples identified via spectroscopy remain limited. In this study, we identified 23 triple systems by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Tongyu He , Jiao Li , Jiangdan Li , Jianping Xiong , Xiaobin Zhang , Mikhail Kovalev , Qiyuan Cheng , Sufen Guo , Mingkuan Yang , Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han