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Compact white dwarf (WD) binaries are important sources for space-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories, and an increasing number of them are being identified by surveys like ZTF. We study the effects of nonlinear dynamical tides in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Hang Yu , Nevin N. Weinberg , Jim Fuller

Tidal dissipation in compact white dwarf (WD) binary systems significantly influences the physical conditions (such as surface temperature and rotation rate) of the WDs prior to mass transfer or merger. In these systems, the dominant tidal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jim Fuller , Dong Lai

Double white dwarf (WD) binaries are increasingly being discovered at short orbital periods where strong tidal effects and significant tidal heating signatures may occur. We assume the tidal potential of the companion excites outgoing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-28 Peter Scherbak , Jim Fuller

In compact white dwarf (WD) binary systems (with periods ranging from minutes to hours), dynamical tides involving the excitation and dissipation of gravity waves play a dominant role in determining the physical conditions of the WDs prior…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jim Fuller , Dong Lai

Tidal interactions play an important role in the evolution and ultimate fate of compact white dwarf (WD) binaries. Not only do tides affect the pre-merger state (such as temperature and rotation rate) of the WDs, but they may also determine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-30 Jim Fuller , Dong Lai

A white dwarf (WD) captured into a high-eccentricity orbit around a massive black hole (MBH) may undergo many pericenter passages before tidal disruption. During these passages, the tidal potential of the MBH excites internal oscillations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-22 Michelle Vick , Dong Lai , Jim Fuller

We study tidal interactions in white dwarf binaries in the limiting case of quasi-static tides. The formalism is valid for arbitrary orbital eccentricities and therefore applicable to white dwarf binaries in the Galactic disk as well as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 B. Willems , C. J. Deloye , V. Kalogera

While dynamical tides only become relevant during the last couple of orbits for circular inspirals, orbital eccentricity can increase their impact during earlier phases of the inspiral by exciting tidal oscillations at each close encounter.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-07 János Takátsy , Bence Kocsis , Péter Kovács

We calculate the tidal response of helium and carbon/oxygen (C/O) white dwarf (WD) binaries inspiraling due to gravitational wave emission. We show that resonance locks, previously considered in binaries with an early-type star, occur…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Joshua Burkart , Eliot Quataert , Phil Arras , Nevin N. Weinberg

Tidal interactions can play an important role as compact white dwarf (WD) binaries are driven together by gravitational waves (GWs). This will modify the strain evolution measured by future space-based GW detectors and impact the potential…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Anthony L. Piro

We study the tidal excitation of gravity modes (g-modes) in compact white dwarf binary systems with periods ranging from minutes to hours. As the orbit of the system decays via gravitational radiation, the orbital frequency increases and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-21 James Fuller , Dong Lai

Compact binary white dwarfs (WDs) undergoing orbital decay due to gravitational radiation can experience significant tidal heating prior to merger. In these WDs, the dominant tidal effect involves the excitation of outgoing gravity waves in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jim Fuller , Dong Lai

We investigate the dynamical tide in a gravitational wave (GW)-driven coalescing binary involving a neutron star (NS). The NS is assumed to spin rapidly, with its spin axis anti-aligned with the orbit. Such an NS may exist if the binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-19 Hang Yu , Phil Arras , Nevin N. Weinberg

The possible existence of warm ($T_{\rm eff}\sim19\,000$ K) pulsating DA white dwarf (WD) stars, hotter than ZZ Ceti stars, was predicted in theoretical studies more than 30 yr ago. However, to date, no pulsating warm DA WD has been…

We study the effect of tidal forcing on gravitational wave signals from tidally relaxed white dwarf pairs in the LISA, DECIGO and BBO frequency band ($0.1-100\,{\rm mHz}$). We show that for stars not in hydrostatic equilibrium (in their own…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 L. O. McNeill , Rosemary A. Mardling , B. Müller

Hydrogen-rich white dwarfs (WDs) comprise the majority of the WD population, but are only rarely found at the very hot end of the WD cooling sequence. A small subgroup that exhibits both hydrogen and helium lines in their spectra, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-21 Semih Filiz , Klaus Werner , Thomas Rauch , Nicole Reindl

A number of White Dwarfs (WDs) in cataclysmic binaries have shown brightness variations consistent with non-radial oscillations as observed in isolated WDs. A few objects have been well-characterized with photometric campaigns in the hopes…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-12 Dean M. Townsley , Phil Arras , Lars Bildsten

The dynamical tide can play an important role in the orbital motion of close eccentric double white dwarf binaries. As the launching of the space-based gravitational-wave detector, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), is just…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 Shu Yan Lau , Kent Yagi , Phil Arras

Eccentric white dwarf-massive black hole binaries can potentially source some extreme X-ray transients, including the recently observed quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions and tidal disruption events at the galactic nuclei. Meanwhile, they are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-13 Shu Yan Lau , Hang Yu

Time-dependent insolation in a planetary atmosphere induces a mass quadrupole upon which the stellar tidal acceleration can exert a force. This "thermal tide" force can give rise to secular torques on the planet and orbit as well as radial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-21 Phil Arras , Aristotle Socrates
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