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Gravitational waves (GWs) from the galactic double white dwarf (DWD) systems are one of the primary targets for upcoming space-based detectors. Due to their vast abundance and widespread distribution throughout the Galactic disk and bulge,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-16 Yan Sun , Yong Yuan , Minghui Du , Wen-Fan Feng , Xilong Fan , Peng Xu

Gravitational wave (GW) radiations from numerous cosmic stellar-compact-binaries form a stochastic GW background (GWB), which is expected to be detected by ground and space GW detectors in future. Theoretical predictions of this GWB were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 Yuetong Zhao , Youjun Lu

By virtue of their sub-hour orbital periods, ultra-compact X-ray binaries are promising sources for the space-borne gravitational-wave interferometers LISA, Taiji, and TianQin. Some of these systems contain a neutron star primary, whose…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-15 Arthur G. Suvorov

We compute the possible observational signatures of white dwarf dynamical interactions in dense stellar environments. Specifically, we compute the emission of gravitational waves, and we compare it with the sensitivity curves of planned…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 G. Aznar-Siguán , E. García-Berro , M. Magnien , P. Lorén-Aguilar

To date more than 3500 exoplanets have been discovered orbiting a large variety of stars. Due to the sensitivity limits of the currently used detection techniques, these planets populate zones restricted either to the solar neighbourhood or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-16 Nicola Tamanini , Camilla Danielski

LISA will detect $\sim \! 10^4$ Galactic binaries, the majority being double white dwarfs. However, approximately $\sim \! 1 \textrm{--} 5 \%$ of these systems will contain neutron stars which, if they can be correctly identified, will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-11 Christopher J. Moore , Eliot Finch , Antoine Klein , Valeriya Korol , Nhat Pham , Daniel Robins

The planned space-based gravitational wave detector, LISA, will provide a fundamentally new means of studying the orbital alignment of close white dwarf binaries. However, due to the inherent symmetry of their gravitational wave signals, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-13 Naoki Seto

Aims. We estimate the number of pulsars, detectable as continuous gravitational wave sources with the current and future gravitational-wave detectors, assuming a simple phenomenological model of evolving non-axisymmetry of the rotating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-19 Marek Cieślar , Tomasz Bulik , Małgorzata Curyło , Magdalena Sieniawska , Neha Singh , Michał Bejger

In this paper, we determine the detectability of eclipsing binary star companions from eclipse timing variations using the Kepler mission dataset. Extensive and precise stellar time-series photometry from space-based missions enable…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 A. K. Getley , B. Carter , R. King , S. O'Toole

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

Understanding common envelope (CE) evolution is an outstanding problem in binary evolution. Although the CE phase is not driven by gravitational-wave (GW) emission, the in-spiraling binary emits GWs that passively trace the CE dynamics.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 M. Renzo , T. Callister , K. Chatziioannou , L. A. C. van Son , C. M. F. Mingarelli , M. Cantiello , K. E. S. Ford , B. McKernan , G. Ashton

We report the discovery of the first eclipsing detached double white dwarf (WD) binary. In a pulsation search, the low-mass helium core WD NLTT 11748 was targeted for fast (approx 1 minute) differential photometry with the Las Cumbres…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Justin D. R. Steinfadt , David L. Kaplan , Avi Shporer , Lars Bildsten , Steve B. Howell

There could be a significant population of double white dwarf binaries (DWDs) inside globular clusters (GCs), however, these are often too faint to be individually observed. We have utilized a large number GC models evolved with the Monte…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-06 Lucas Hellström , Mirosław Giersz , Arkadiusz Hypki , Diogo Belloni , Abbas Askar , Grzegorz Wiktorowicz

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

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

Recent studies have revealed the contribution of extragalactic DWD to the astrophysical SGWB could be detectable in the mHz regime by LISA. Conversely, the presence of this SGWB could hamper the detection of cosmological SGWB, which are one…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Guillaume Boileau , Tristan Bruel , Alexandre Toubiana , Astrid Lamberts , Nelson Christensen

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

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…

Using neural networks, we integrate the ability to account for Doppler smearing due to a pulsar's orbital motion with the pulsar population synthesis package \psrpoppy\ to develop accurate modeling of the observed binary pulsar population.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 Nihan Pol , Maura McLaughlin , Duncan R. Lorimer , Nathan Garver-Daniels