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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

Context: Studies of the Galactic population of double white dwarfs (DWDs) that would be detectable in gravitational waves by LISA have found differences in the number of predicted detectable DWDs of more than an order of magnitude,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-09 Wouter G. J. van Zeist , Jan van Roestel , Gijs Nelemans , Jan J. Eldridge , Valeriya Korol , Silvia Toonen

Double white dwarfs (DWDs) will be the most numerous gravitational-wave (GW) sources for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Most of the Galactic DWDs will be unresolved and will superpose to form a confusion noise foreground,…

Detached, inspiraling and semi-detached, mass-transferring double white dwarf (DWD) binary systems are both expected to be important sources for the proposed space-based gravitational-wave detector, LISA. The mass-radius relationship of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ravi Kumar Kopparapu , Joel E. Tohline

Ultra-compact double white dwarfs (DWDs) represent key targets for multi-messenger astrophysics, as they may be observed both through gravitational waves and the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. The future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Alice Perego , Astrid Lamberts , Mathias Schultheis , Nelson Christensen

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

Short-period (P<1 hour) white dwarf binaries will be the most numerous sources for the space-based gravitational wave detector LISA. Based on thousands of resolved systems, we will be able to constrain binary evolution and provide a new map…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 Astrid Lamberts , Sarah Blunt , Tyson Littenberg , Shea Garrison-Kimmel , Thomas Kupfer , Robyn Sanderson

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

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

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

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

White dwarf stars are a well-established tool for studying Galactic stellar populations. Two white dwarfs in a tight binary system offer us an additional messenger - gravitational waves - for exploring the Milky Way and its immediate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-05 Valeriya Korol , Vasily Belokurov , Christopher J. Moore , Silvia Toonen

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

White dwarfs comprise 95% of all stellar remnants, and are thus an excellent tracer of old stellar populations in the Milky Way. Current and planned telescopes are not able to directly probe the white dwarf population in its entirety due to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-14 Katelyn Breivik , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli , Shane L. Larson

A large number of galactic binary systems emit gravitational waves (GW) continuously with frequencies below $\sim$10 mHz. The LISA mission could identify tens of thousands of binaries over years of observation and will be subject to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-26 Gang Wang , Zhen Yan , Bin Hu , Wei-Tou Ni

Short-period double white dwarf (DWD) binaries will be the most prolific source of gravitational waves (GWs) for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). DWDs with GW frequencies below $\sim1$ mHz will be the dominant contributor to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Sarah Thiele , Katelyn Breivik , Robyn E. Sanderson , Rodrigo Luger

In this work, we investigate the impact of tidal torques and mass transfer on the population of double white dwarfs (DWDs) that will be observed with LISA. Starting from a distribution of DWDs at formation predicted by numerical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 Alexandre Toubiana , Nikolaos Karnesis , Astrid Lamberts , M. Coleman Miller

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

Galactic white dwarf binaries (WDBs) and black hole binaries (BHBs) will be gravitational wave (GW) sources for LISA. Their detection will provide insights into binary evolution and the evolution of our Galaxy through cosmic history. Here,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-24 Petra Tang , Jan Eldridge , Renate Meyer , Astrid Lamberts , Guillaume Boileau , Wouter van Zeist

The upcoming LISA mission is the only experiment that will allow us to study the Milky Way's structure using gravitational wave signals from Galactic double white dwarfs (DWDs). The total number of expected detections exceeds $10^5$.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-10 Valeriya Korol , Elena Maria Rossi , Enrico Barausse
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