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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

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is a proposed space mission, which will use coherent laser beams exchanged between three remote spacecraft to detect and study low-frequency cosmic gravitational radiation. In the low-part of its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Jeffrey A. Edlund , Massimo Tinto , Andrzej Krolak , Gijs Nelemans

Future gravitational wave detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (\textit{LISA}), will be able to resolve a significant number of the ultra compact stellar-mass binaries in our own Galaxy and its neighborhood. These will…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 Maria Georgousi , Nikolaos Karnesis , Valeriya Korol , Mauro Pieroni , Nikolaos Stergioulas

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is a proposed space mission, which will use coherent laser beams exchanged between three remote spacecraft to detect and study low-frequency cosmic gravitational radiation. In the low-part of its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Jeffrey A. Edlund , Massimo Tinto , Andrzej Królak , Gijs Nelemans

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

Galactic double white dwarf (DWD) binaries are among the guaranteed sources for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), an upcoming space-based gravitational wave (GW) detector. Most DWDs in the LISA band are far from merging and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-26 Reza Ebadi , Vladimir Strokov , Erwin H. Tanin , Emanuele Berti , Ronald L. Walsworth

The upcoming LISA mission offers the unique opportunity to study the Milky Way through gravitational wave radiation from Galactic binaries. Among the variety of Galactic gravitational wave sources, LISA is expected to individually resolve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-26 Valeriya Korol , Elena M. Rossi , Enrico Barausse

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

We present the successful recovery of common envelope ejection efficiency assumed in a simulated population of double white dwarf binaries like those which may be observed by the future LISA mission. We simulate the formation of double…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-27 Vera Delfavero , Katelyn Breivik , Sarah Thiele , Richard O'Shaughnessy , John G. Baker

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open a new observational window in the millihertz gravitational-wave band, enabling the detection of tens of thousands of compact stellar remnant binaries across the Milky Way. Most of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-09 Irwin Khai Cheng Tay , Valeriya Korol , Thibault Lechien

Galactic double white dwarfs will be prominent gravitational-wave sources for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). While previous studies have primarily focused on formation scenarios in which binaries form and evolve in…

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

Double white dwarfs (DWDs) are by far the most common compact binaries in the Milky Way, are important low-frequency gravitational-wave sources, and in some cases merge to become Type Ia supernovae. So far, no DWD has been identified solely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Gautham Adamane Pallathadka , Yossef Zenati , Nadia L. Zakamska , Ngan H. Nguyen , Anthony L. Piro

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

We estimate the properties of the double neutron star (DNS) population that will be observable by the planned space-based interferometer LISA. By following the gravitational radiation driven evolution of DNSs generated from rapid population…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-22 Mike Y. M. Lau , Ilya Mandel , Alejandro Vigna-Gómez , Coenraad J. Neijssel , Simon Stevenson , Alberto Sesana

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

Recent studies have revealed the contribution of extragalactic DWD to the astrophysical SGWB could be detectable in the mHz regime by LISA. Conversely, the presence of this SGWB could hamper the detection of cosmological SGWB, which are one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Guillaume Boileau , Tristan Bruel , Alexandre Toubiana , Astrid Lamberts , Nelson Christensen

Close pairs of white dwarfs are potential progenitors of Type~Ia supernovae and they are common, with of order 100 -- 300 million in the Galaxy. As such they will be significant, probably dominant, sources of the gravitational waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 T. R. Marsh

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect thousands of individually resolved gravitational wave sources, overlapping in time and frequency, on top of unresolved astrophysical and/or primordial backgrounds.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-09 Rahul Srinivasan , Enrico Barausse , Natalia Korsakova , Roberto Trotta

Double white dwarf binaries are an important remnant of binary evolution as they are possible type Ia supernova progenitors and strong sources of gravitational waves in the low-frequency regime. The double-lined double white dwarf (DBL)…