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An ungravity-inspired model is employed to examine the astrophysical parameters of white dwarf stars (WDs) using polytropic and degenerate gas approaches. Based on the observed properties such as mass, radius, and luminosity of selected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-06 Orfeu Bertolami , Hodjat Mariji

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

Coalescences of binary white dwarfs represent a copious source of information for gravitational wave interferometers operating in the decihertz band. Moreover, according to the double degenerate scenario, they have been suggested to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Andrea Maselli , Stefania Marassi , Marica Branchesi

Magnetic fields play a crucial role in compact object physics, particularly in white dwarfs (WDs), where high densities can sustain strong magnetic fields. Observations have revealed magnetized WDs (MWDs) with surface fields reaching…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Surajit Kalita , Akhil Uniyal , Tomasz Bulik , Yosuke Mizuno

White dwarfs are the remnants of stars not massive enough to become supernovae. This review explores the concept of strange dwarfs, a unique class of white dwarfs which contain cores of strange quark matter. Strange dwarfs have different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-06 Francesco Di Clemente , Alessandro Drago , Giuseppe Pagliara

Aims: We study single and binary white dwarfs in the inner halo of the Milky Way in order to learn more about the conditions under which the population of halo stars was born, such as the initial mass function (IMF), the star formation…

Context: The astrophysical gravitational wave background (AGWB) is a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) signal that is emitted by different populations of inspiralling binary systems containing compact objects throughout the Universe. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-16 Sophie Hofman , Gijs Nelemans

Hot white dwarf stars are the ideal probe for a relationship between the fine-structure constant and strong gravitational fields, providing us with an opportunity for a direct observational test. We study a sample of hot white dwarf stars,…

We consider a potentially new class of gravitational wave sources consisting of a white dwarf coalescing into a massive black hole in the mass range ~10^4-10^5\msun. These sources are of particular interest because the gravitational wave…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Sesana , A. Vecchio , M. Eracleous , S. Sigurdsson

Gravitational-wave (GW) astrophysics is a field in full blossom. Since the landmark detection of GWs from a binary black hole on September 14th 2015, several compact-object binaries have been reported by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration. Such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-04 Andrea Antonelli

White dwarfs are compact objects that stand against gravitational collapse by their internal pressure of degenerate matter. In this work we aimed to perform an introductory study on these stars, using two equations of state (EOS): (I) an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-22 Sílvia Pereira Nunes , Marcelo Chiapparini , Santiago Esteban Perez Bergliaffa

White dwarfs inspiraling into black holes of mass $\MBH\simgt 10^5M_\odot$ are detectable sources of gravitational waves in the LISA band. In many of these events, the white dwarf begins to lose mass during the main observational phase of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Ivan Zalamea , Kristen Menou , Andrei M. Beloborodov

Current gravitational wave detectors are sensitive to coalescing black holes and neutron stars. However, double white dwarfs (DWDs) have long been recognized as promising sources of gravitational waves, and upcoming detectors like LISA will…

Mergers of white dwarf binaries are a possible progenitor channel for Type Ia supernovae. While white dwarfs are abundant in the universe and relatively well understood, their gravitational wave signals have not yet been directly observed.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-24 Giona Sala , Chiara Brandenstein , Sebastian Baum , Peter W. Graham

Theories that attempt to unify the four fundamental interactions and alternative theories of gravity predict time and/or spatial variation of the fundamental constants of nature. Different versions of these theories predict different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Susana J. Landau

White dwarf planetary science is a rapidly growing field of research featuring a diverse set of observations and theoretical explorations. Giant planets, minor planets, and debris discs have all been detected orbiting white dwarfs. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Dimitri Veras

The space-borne gravitational wave detectors will observe a large population of double white dwarf binaries in the Milky Way. However, the search for double white dwarfs in the gravitational wave data will be time-consuming due to the large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-08 Yang Lu , En-Kun Li , Yi-Ming Hu , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

There are no known examples of magnetic white dwarfs with fields larger than about 3MG paired with a non-degenerate companion in detached binary systems. The suggestion is that highly magnetic, isolated white dwarfs may originate from stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-18 Lilia Ferrario

The gravitational wave emission from the merging binary neutron star system GW170817 arrived full of tidal information which can be used to probe the fundamental ultra-dense nuclear physics residing in these stars. In previous work, we used…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-23 Zack Carson , Andrew W. Steiner , Kent Yagi