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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).…

We describe a hybrid evolutionary algorithm that can simultaneously search for multiple supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) inspirals in LISA data. The algorithm mixes evolutionary computation, Metropolis-Hastings methods and Nested…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-03 Jonathan R. Gair , Edward K. Porter

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect a wide variety of gravitational wave sources in the mHz band. Some of these signals will elude individual detection, instead contributing as confusion noise to one of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-06 Steven Rieck , Alexander W. Criswell , Valeriya Korol , Michael A. Keim , Malachy Bloom , Vuk Mandic

We discuss spatial fluctuations in the gravitational wave background arising from unresolved Galactic binary sources, such as close white dwarf binaries, due to the fact the galactic binary source distribution is anisotropic. We introduce a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Naoki Seto , Asantha Cooray

The possibility that Galactic halo MACHOs are white dwarfs has recently attracted much attention. Using the known properties of white dwarf binaries in the Galactic disk as a model, we estimate the possible contribution of halo white dwarf…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 William A. Hiscock , Shane L. Larson , Joshua R. Routzahn , Ben Kulick

Ultracompact binaries with orbital periods less than a few hours will dominate the gravitational wave signal in the mHz regime. Until recently, 10 systems were expected have a predicted gravitational wave signal strong enough to be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-27 T. Kupfer , V. Korol , S. Shah , G. Nelemans , T. R. Marsh , G. Ramsay , P. J. Groot , D. T. H Steeghs , E. M. Rossi

LISA is a planned space-based gravitational-wave (GW) detector that would be sensitive to waves from low-frequency sources, in the band of roughly $(0.03 - 0.1) {\rm mHz} \lesssim f \lesssim 0.1 {\rm Hz}$. This is expected to be an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Scott A. Hughes

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 Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect close white dwarf binaries (CWDBs) through their gravitational radiation. Around 3000 binaries will be spectrally resolved at frequencies > 3 mHz, and their positions on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Asantha Cooray , Alison J. Farmer , Naoki Seto

Ultracompact Galactic binaries with orbital periods below an hour are among the strongest persistent gravitational-wave (GW) sources in the mHz band and will constitute the dominant population detected by the Laser Interferometer Space…

We investigate the use of particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm for detection of gravitational-wave signals from compact binary coalescences. We show that the PSO is fast and effective in searching for gravitational wave signals. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-16 Varun Srivastava , K Rajesh Nayak , Sukanta Bose

Gravitational wave (GW) observations have provided a novel tool to explore the universe. In the near future, space-borne detectors will further open the window of low-frequency GW band where abundant sources exist and invaluable information…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-21 Rui Niu , Wen Zhao

Galactic binaries with orbital periods less than $\approx$1 hr are strong gravitational wave sources in the mHz regime, ideal for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). In fact, theory predicts that \emph{LISA} will resolve tens of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-04 Thomas Kupfer , Mukremin Kilic , Tom Maccarone , Eric Burns , Chris L. Fryer , Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge

By being the first observatory to survey the source rich low frequency region of the gravitational wave spectrum, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will revolutionize our understanding of the Cosmos. For the first time we will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Louis J. Rubbo

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will enable Galactic gravitational wave (GW) astronomy by individually resolving $ > 10^4$ signals from double white dwarf (DWD) binaries throughout the Milky Way. In this work we assess for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-03 Maite J. C. Wilhelm , Valeriya Korol , Elena M. Rossi , Elena D'Onghia

Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe gravitational waves from galactic binaries (GBs) of white dwarfs or neutron stars. Some of these objects are among the most magnetic astrophysical objects in the Universe. Magnetism, by…

The coalescence of massive black hole (BH) binaries due to galaxy mergers provides a primary source of low-frequency gravitational radiation detectable by pulsar timing measurements and by the proposed LISA (Laser Interferometry Space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Stuart B. Wyithe , Abraham Loeb

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe mHz gravitational waves from a wide variety of astrophysical sources. Of these, some will be characterizable as individual deterministic signals; the remainder will overlap to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Alexander W. Criswell , Sharan Banagiri , Jessica Lawrence , Levi Schult , Steven Rieck , Stephen R. Taylor , Vuk Mandic

The analysis of gravitational wave data involves many model selection problems. The most important example is the detection problem of selecting between the data being consistent with instrument noise alone, or instrument noise and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Neil J. Cornish , Tyson B. Littenberg

The observation of low-frequency gravitational waves with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna will allow the study of new sources of gravitational radiation that are not accessible by ground-based instruments. Gravitational wave sources…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Tyson B. Littenberg , Nicolas Yunes