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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

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 Galactic population of close white dwarf binaries is expected to provide the largest number of gravitational wave sources for low frequency detectors such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Current data analysis…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-26 Alexander Stroeer , Matthew Benacquista , Frank Ceballos

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

The upcoming LISA mission offers the unique opportunity to study the Milky Way through gravitational wave radiation from Galactic binaries. Among the variety of Galactic gravitational wave sources, LISA is expected to individually resolve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-26 Valeriya Korol , Elena M. Rossi , Enrico Barausse

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open the low-frequency (0.1-100 mHz) part of the gravitational wave spectrum to direct observation. Of order 3600 galactic close binary white dwarfs will be individually resolvable in its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Ronald F. Webbink

Double white dwarf binaries are an important remnant of binary evolution as they are possible type Ia supernova progenitors and strong sources of gravitational waves in the low-frequency regime. The double-lined double white dwarf (DBL)…

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

Coalescing neutron star--white dwarf (NS-WD) binaries are among the primary targets for upcoming space-borne gravitational wave (GW) detectors such as LISA, TaiJi, TianQin, etc. During close interaction, these binaries undergo mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-27 Zhenwei Lyu , Lijing Shao

Galactic short period double white dwarfs (DWD) are guaranteed gravitational wave (GW) sources for the next generation of space-based interferometers sensitive to low-frequency GWs (10^{-4}- 1 Hz). Here we investigate the possibility of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 Francesca Valsecchi , Will M. Farr , Bart Willems , Christopher J. Deloye andVicky Kalogera

Context. White dwarf-main sequence (WDMS) binaries are used to study several different important open problems in modern astrophysics. Aims. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) identified the largest catalogue of WDMS binaries currently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-05 Juanjuan Ren , Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas , Ali Luo , Yongheng Zhao , Maosheng Xiang , Xiaowei Liu , Gang Zhao , Ge Jin , Yong Zhang

The fifth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V) includes the first large-scale spectroscopic survey of white dwarfs (WDs) in the era of Gaia parallaxes. SDSS-V collects multiple exposures per target, making it ideal for binary…

We revisit the properties and astrophysical implications of the field white dwarf mass distribution in preparation of Gaia applications. Our study is based on the two samples with the best established completeness and most precise…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 P. -E. Tremblay , J. Cummings , J. S. Kalirai , B. T. Gaensicke , N. Gentile-Fusillo , R. Raddi

The nature of progenitors of Type Ia supernovae has long been debated, primarily due to the elusiveness of the progenitor systems to traditional electromagnetic observation methods. We argue that gravitational wave observations with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-30 Valeriya Korol , Riccardo Buscicchio , Ruediger Pakmor , Javier Morán-Fraile , Christopher J. Moore , Selma E. de Mink

Planetary formation might occur at different stages of the stellar evolution of compact binaries. In recent years, the formation of second-generation planets has been tested in circumbinary discs formed by the ejection of stellar material…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Arianna Nigioni , Diego Turrini , Camilla Danielski , Danae Polychroni , John E. Chambers

We use population synthesis modelling to predict the gravitational wave (GW) signal that the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect from the Galactic population of compact binary systems. We implement a realistic star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 Jake McMillan , Adam Ingram , Cordelia Dashwood Brown , Andrei Igoshev , Matthew Middleton , Grzegorz Wiktorowicz , Simone Scaringi

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

The gigaelectronvolt $\gamma$-ray excess observed towards the Galactic centre remains unexplained. While dark matter annihilation has long been considered a leading explanation, an alternative scenario involving a large population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-23 Valeriya Korol , Andrei Igoshev

Although not nearly as numerous as binaries with two white dwarfs, eccentric neutron star-white dwarf (NS-WD) binaries are important gravitational-wave (GW) sources for the next generation of space-based detectors sensitive to low frequency…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Niharika Sravan , Francesca Valsecchi , Vassiliki Kalogera , Leandro G. Althaus

Wide binaries made up of two white dwarfs (WDs) receive far less attention than their tight counterparts. However, our tests using the binary population synthesis code {\tt StarTrack} indicate that, for any set of reasonable initial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jeff J. Andrews , Marcel A. Agüeros , Krzysztof Belczynski , Saurav Dhital , S. J. Kleinman , Andrew A. West
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