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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

Compact Galactic binaries where at least one member is a white dwarf or neutron star constitute the majority of individually detectable sources for future low-frequency space-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories; they also form an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Samaya Nissanke , Michele Vallisneri , Gijs Nelemans , Thomas A. Prince

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

Resolving individual gravitational waves from tens of millions of double white dwarf (DWD) binaries in the Milky Way is a challenge for future space-based gravitational wave detection programs. By using previous data to define the priors…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-13 Pin Gao , Xi-Long Fan , Zhou-Jian Cao , Xue-Hao Zhang

White dwarfs comprise 95% of all stellar remnants, and are thus an excellent tracer of old stellar populations in the Milky Way. Current and planned telescopes are not able to directly probe the white dwarf population in its entirety due to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-14 Katelyn Breivik , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli , Shane L. Larson

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

Using the proposed space gravitational wave detector LISA, we will be able to measure the geometrical configurations of $\sim 10^4$ close white dwarf binaries in our Galaxy. The obtained data will be an entirely new resource to examine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-31 Naoki Seto

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 space based gravitational wave detector LISA is expected to observe a large population of Galactic white dwarf binaries whose collective signal is likely to dominate instrumental noise at observational frequencies in the range 10^{-4}…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Soumya D. Mohanty , Rajesh K. Nayak

We study the evolution and gravitational wave emission of white dwarf -- black hole accreting binaries with a semi-analytical model. These systems will evolve across the mHz gravitational wave frequency band and potentially be detected by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-15 Laura Sberna , Alexandre Toubiana , M. Coleman Miller

Double white dwarfs are important gravitational wave sources for LISA, as they are some of the most numerous compact systems in our universe. Here we consider finite-sized effects due to tidal interactions, as they are expected to have a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-12 Grace Fiacco , Neil J. Cornish , Hang Yu

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).…

Binary black holes are the primary endpoint of massive stellar evolution. Their properties provide a unique opportunity to constrain binary evolution, which is still poorly understood. In this paper, we predict the inventory of binary black…

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…

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

One of the primary sources of gravitational waves (GWs) anticipated to be detected by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) are Galactic double white dwarf binaries (DWDs). However, most of these binaries will be unresolved, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-02 Federico Pozzoli , Riccardo Buscicchio , Antoine Klein , Valeriya Korol , Alberto Sesana , Francesco Haardt

Upcoming space-based gravitational-wave detectors will be sensitive to millions and resolve tens of thousands of stellar-mass binary systems at mHz frequencies. The vast majority of these will be double white dwarfs in our Galaxy. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-21 Riccardo Buscicchio , Antoine Klein , Valeriya Korol , Francesco Di Renzo , Christopher J. Moore , Davide Gerosa , Alessandro Carzaniga

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

The Galactic population of close white dwarf binaries is expected to provide the largest number of gravitational wave sources for low frequency detectors such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Current data analysis…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-26 Alexander Stroeer , Matthew Benacquista , Frank Ceballos

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