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Accreting binary white dwarf systems are among the sources expected to emanate gravitational waves that the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect. We investigate how accurately the binary parameters may be measured from LISA…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-04 Sophia Yi , Shu Yan Lau , Kent Yagi , Phil Arras

We present a complete pipeline for detecting and characterizing gravitational waves (GWs) produced by the inspiral of stellar-mass binary black holes in data from the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The analysis framework relies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-25 Diganta Bandopadhyay , Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird , Alberto Vecchio

We explore the prospects for the detection of giant circumbinary exoplanets and brown dwarfs (BDs) orbiting Galactic double white dwarfs binaries (DWDs) with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). By assuming an occurrence rate of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-18 Camilla Danielski , Valeriya Korol , Nicola Tamanini , Elena Maria Rossi

Detached double white dwarf (DWD) binaries are one of the main science case for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). As the most numerous LISA sources, they will provide important contributions towards understanding binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-24 Valeriya Korol , Orlin Koop , Elena M. Rossi

Galactic interacting double white dwarfs (DWD) are guaranteed gravitational wave (GW) sources for the GW detector LISA, with more than 10^4 binaries expected to be detected over the mission's lifetime. Part of this population is expected to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Francesca Valsecchi , Will M. Farr , Bart Willems , Christopher . J. Deloye , Vassiliki Kalogera

Context: Globular clusters (GCs) around the Milky Way (MW) are expected to host white dwarf (WD) binaries emitting gravitational waves that could be detectable by LISA. Aims: Our aim is to investigate whether LISA can resolve WD binaries in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Wouter G. J. van Zeist , Gijs Nelemans , Shu-Xu Yi , Simon F. Portegies Zwart

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…

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 report the discovery of ZTF J2243+5242, an eclipsing double white dwarf binary with an orbital period of just $8.8$ minutes, the second known eclipsing binary with an orbital period less than ten minutes. The system likely consists of…

We discuss the prospect of identifying a white dwarf binary merger by monitoring disappearance of its nearly monochromatic gravitational wave. For a ten-year operation of the laser interferometer space antenna (LISA), the chance probability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Naoki Seto

Gravitational-wave (GW) observations by a network of ground-based laser interferometric detectors allow us to probe the nature of GW polarizations. This would be an interesting test of general relativity (GR), since GR predicts only two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-27 Srashti Goyal , K. Haris , Ajit Kumar Mehta , Parameswaran Ajith

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 Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect ~ 100 galactic binary systems comprised of black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs). Identifying the nature of the constituents of these binaries as BHs or NSs, and distinguishing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-16 Hannah Middleton , Panagiota Kolitsidou , Antoine Klein , Connor Adam , Rowan Chalmers , Alberto Vecchio

The short-period eclipsing binary ZTFJ1539+5027 discovered by Burdge et al. (2019) will be a strong gravitational-wave source for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We study how well LISA will constrain the parameters of this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil J. Cornish

Data analysis for the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be complicated by the huge number of sources in the LISA band. Throughout much of the band, galactic white dwarf binaries (GWDBs) are sufficiently dense in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Etienne Racine , Curt Cutler

Building on the great success of the LISA Pathfinder mission, the outlines of a new LISA mission design were laid out at the $11^{\rm th}$ International LISA Symposium in Zurich. The revised design calls for three identical spacecraft…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-09 Neil Cornish , Travis Robson

Milky Way dwarf satellites are unique objects that encode the early structure formation and therefore represent a window into the high redshift Universe. So far, their study was conducted using electromagnetic waves only. The future Laser…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-11 V. Korol , S. Toonen , A. Klein , V. Belokurov , F. Vincenzo , R. Buscicchio , D. Gerosa , C. J. Moore , E. Roebber , E. M. Rossi , A. Vecchio

Parity violating interactions in the early Universe can source a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) with a net circular polarization. In this paper, we study possible ways to search for circular polarization of the SGWB with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Valerie Domcke , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Marco Peloso , Mauro Pieroni , Angelo Ricciardone , Lorenzo Sorbo , Gianmassimo Tasinato

The prime candidate sources for the upcoming space-borne gravitational wave (GW) observatory LISA are the numerous Galactic tight binaries of white dwarfs (WDs) and neutron stars (NSs), many of which will coalesce and undergo mass transfer,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Thomas M. Tauris

We report on the discovery of the shortest period binary comprising a hot subdwarf star (CD-30 11223, GALEX J1411-3053) and a massive unseen companion. Photometric data from the All Sky Automated Survey show ellipsoidal variations of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Vennes , A. Kawka , S. J. O'Toole , P. Nemeth , D. Burton