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Interferometric gravitational wave detectors could measure the frequency sweep of a binary inspiral [characterized by its chirp mass] to high accuracy. The observed chirp mass is the intrinsic chirp mass of the binary source multiplied by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 Yun Wang , Edwin L. Turner

We discuss the usability of the gravitational wave detector LISA for studying the orientational distribution of compact white dwarf binaries in the Galactic bulge. We pay special attention to measuring the dipole pattern of the distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-13 Naoki Seto

We examine the applicability of the initial-to-final mass relation (IFMR) for white dwarfs (WDs) in intermediate-separation binary systems (approximately 1 AU), using astrometric binaries identified in open clusters from Gaia DR3. A careful…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-30 Oren Ironi , Sagi Ben-Ami , Na'ama Hallakoun , Sahar Shahaf

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

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

White dwarfs (WDs) are powerful tools to study the evolutionary history of stars and binaries in the Galaxy. But do we understand their multiplicity from a theoretical point of view? This can be tested by a comparison with the sample of WDs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 S. Toonen , M. Hollands , B. T. Gaensicke , T. Boekholt

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

The drag-free satellites of LISA will maintain the test masses in geodesic motion over many years with residual accelerations at unprecedented small levels and time delay interferometry (TDI) will keep track of their differential positions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Cerdonio , R. De Pietri , Ph. Jetzer , M. Sereno

We propose that stellar-mass binary black holes like GW150914 will become a tool to explore the local Universe within ~100Mpc in the era of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). High calibration accuracy and annual motion of LISA…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 Koutarou Kyutoku , Naoki Seto

The noise produced by the inspiral of millions of white dwarf binaries in the Milky Way may pose a threat to one of the main goals of the space-based LISA mission: the detection of massive black hole binary mergers. We present a novel study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Charles Badger , Katarina Martinovic , Alejandro Torres-Forné , Mairi Sakellariadou , José A. Font

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is designed to detect gravitational wave signals from astrophysical sources, including those from coalescing binary systems of compact objects such as black holes. Colliding galaxies have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-22 Joey Shapiro Key , Neil J. Cornish

After the prediction of many sub- and super-Chandrasekhar (at least a dozen for the latter) limiting mass white dwarfs, hence apparently peculiar class of white dwarfs, from the observations of luminosity of type Ia supernovae, researchers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-09 Surajit Kalita , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

Interacting white dwarf binary star systems, including helium cataclysmic variable (HeCV) systems, are expected to be strong sources of gravitational radiation, and should be detectable by proposed space-based laser interferometer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Shane L. Larson , William A. Hiscock

Although the internal structure of white dwarfs is considered to be generally well understood, the source and entity of viscosity is still very uncertain. We propose here to study white dwarf viscous properties using short period (< 1 hr),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Simone Dall'Osso , Elena Maria Rossi

Although the general theory of relativity (GR) predicts that gravitational waves (GWs) have exactly the same propagation velocity as electromagnetic (EM) waves, many theories of gravity beyond GR expect otherwise. Accurate measurement of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-06 Tian-Yong Cao , Ankit Kumar , Shu-Xu Yi

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

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

We study the effect of torques on circular inspirals of intermediate-mass black hole binaries (IMBHBs) embedded in gas discs, wherein both BH masses are in the range $10^2$-$10^5~\rm{M}_\odot$, up to redshift $z = 10$. We focus on how…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-10 Mudit Garg , Andrea Derdzinski , Lorenz Zwick , Pedro R. Capelo , Lucio Mayer

Realistic models of the Galactic double white dwarf (DWD) population are crucial for testing and quantitatively defining the science objectives of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a future European Space Agency's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-23 Valeriya Korol , Na'ama Hallakoun , Silvia Toonen , Nikolaos Karnesis

Response of an interferometer becomes complicated for gravitational wave shorter than the arm-length of the detector, as nature of wave appears strongly. We have studied how parameter estimation for merging massive black hole binaries are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Naoki Seto