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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…

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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…

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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

Double white dwarfs could be important sources for space based gravitational wave detectors like OMEGA and LISA. We use population synthesis to predict the current population of double white dwarfs in the Galaxy and the gravitational waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Nelemans , S. F. Portegies Zwart , F. Verbunt

The Galaxy is suspected to contain hundreds of millions of binary white dwarf systems, a large fraction of which will have sufficiently small orbital period to emit gravitational radiation in band for space-based gravitational wave…

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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

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

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

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

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

Double white dwarfs are expected to be a source of confusion-limited noise for the future gravitational wave observatory LISA. In a specific frequency range, this 'foreground noise' is predicted to rise above the instrumental noise and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 A. J. Ruiter , K. Belczynski , M. Benacquista , S. L. Larson , G. Williams

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 formation and evolution of binary stars is a critical component of several fields in astronomy. The most numerous sources for gravitational wave observatories are inspiraling and/or merging compact binaries, while binary stars are…

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 dwarf (DWD) binaries are natural outcomes of binary stellar evolution and key sources for future space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories such as Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We investigate how different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-24 Sreeta Roy , Surajit Kalita

White dwarf binaries are the most common compact binaries in the Universe and are especially important for low-frequency gravitational wave detectors such as LISA. There are a number of open questions about binary evolution and the Galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Nelemans

Gravitational radiation from the galactic population of white dwarf binaries is expected to produce a background signal in the LISA frequency band. At frequencies below 1 mHz, this signal is expected to be confusion-limited and has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. J. Benacquista , J. DeGoes , D. Lunder

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

Galactic double white dwarfs will be prominent gravitational-wave sources for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). While previous studies have primarily focused on formation scenarios in which binaries form and evolve in…

The space based gravitational wave detector LISA is expected to observe a large population of Galactic white dwarf binaries whose collective signal is likely to dominate instrumental noise at observational frequencies in the range 10^{-4}…

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