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Ultra-compact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) are low-mass X-ray binaries with ultra-short orbital periods (usually less than 1 hour) and hydrogen-poor donor stars, which are proposed to be the potential LISA sources. In this work, we firstly employ…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-25 Wen-Cong Chen , Dong-Dong Liu , Bo Wang

In the Galaxy, close binaries with compact objects are important low-frequency gravitational wave (GW) sources. As potential low-frequency GW sources, neutron star/white dwarf (WD) ultra-compact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) have been investigated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Ke Qin , Long Jiang , Wen-Cong Chen

Ultra-compact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) are a subclass of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) characterized by ultra-short orbital periods, typically less than $60-80\,$min. They consist of a compact mass-accretor and a hydrogen-poor mass-donor,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Bo Wang , Dongdong Liu , Yunlang Guo , Hailiang Chen , Wencong Chen , Zhanwen Han

Ultra-compact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) are low-mass X-ray binaries with hydrogen-deficient mass-donors and ultra-short orbital periods. They have been suggested to be the potential Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) sources in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-09 Bo Wang , Wencong Chen , Dongdong Liu , Hailiang Chen , Chengyuan Wu , Wenshi Tang , Yunlang Guo , Zhanwen Han

Ultracompact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) are a subclass of low-mass X-ray binaries characterized by tight orbits and degenerate donors, which pose significant challenges to our understanding of their formation. Recent discoveries of black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-08 Zeyuan Xuan , Cheyanne Shariat , Smadar Naoz

The recent discovery of M31 UCXB-1, the first extragalactic ultracompact X-ray binary (UCXB) with an orbital period of $T_{\rm orb} \sim 465$ s, presents a unique laboratory for studying close binary evolution and an unprecedented target…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Xiao Guo , Zhoujian Cao , Zhiwei Chen

Close-orbit low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), radio binary millisecond pulsars (BMSPs) with extremely low-mass helium WDs (ELM He~WDs) and ultra-compact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) are all part of the same evolutionary sequence. It is therefore…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Hai-Liang Chen , Thomas M. Tauris , Zhanwen Han , Xuefei Chen

Ultracompact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) are a distinctive but elusive family of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) characterised by their tight orbits and degenerate donor stars. Here we present UltraCompCAT, the first online and comprehensive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-27 M. Armas Padilla , J. M. Corral-Santana , A. Borghese , V. A. Cúneo , T. Muñoz-Darias , J. Casares , M. A. P. Torres

We model the present-day number and characteristics of Ultra-compact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) in the Galactic Bulge. The main objective is to compare the results with the forthcoming data from the Galactic Bulge Survey (GBS) in order to learn…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-04 Lennart van Haaften , Gijs Nelemans

Black hole (BH) ultracompact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) are potential Galactic low-frequency gravitational wave (GW) sources. As an alternative channel, BH UCXBs can evolve from BH+He star binaries. In this work, we perform a detailed stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 Ke Qin , Kun Xu , Dong-Dong Liu , Long Jiang , Bo Wang , Wen-Cong Chen

In the mHz gravitational-wave band, galactic ultra-compact binaries (UCBs) are continuous sources emitting at near-constant frequency. The signals from many of these galactic binaries will be sufficiently strong to be detectable by the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Tyson B. Littenberg

Space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors will open the millihertz band to survey ultra-compact binaries (UCBs). \textit{Verification binaries} (VBs) is a key to verifying the performance of space-based GW detectors because its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Zi-Heng Yu , Sen Yang , Liangliang Ren , Shun-Jia Huang

Chandra observations of distant elliptical galaxies have revealed large numbers of Low Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs) accreting at rates in excess of 10^{-8} solar masses per year. The majority of these LMXBs reside in globular clusters (GCs)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lars Bildsten , Christopher J. Deloye

Ultra-compact binaries (UCBs) are systems containing compact or degenerate stars with orbital periods less than one hour. Tens of millions of UCBs are predicted to exist within theGalaxy emitting gravitational waves (GWs) at mHz…

[abridged] Aims. We model the number and properties of ultracompact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) in the Galactic Bulge. The objective is to learn about the formation of UCXBs and their evolution, such as the onset of mass transfer and late-time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-27 L. M. van Haaften , G. Nelemans , R. Voss , S. Toonen , S. F. Portegies Zwart , L. R. Yungelson , M. V. van der Sluys

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

Binary systems with ultrashort-period planetary-mass companions are expected to radiate continuous gravitational waves (GWs). However, earlier studies found that the detectability of such systems by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Abdusattar Kurban , Xia Zhou , Na Wang , Yong-Feng Huang , Wenming Yan , Jianping Yuan , Ali Esamdin , Yu-Bin Wang , Zhigang Wen , Rai Yuen

It is generally believed that Ultracompact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) evolved from binaries consisting of a neutron star accreting from a low-mass white dwarf or helium star where mass transfer is driven by gravitational radiation. However, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-24 Wen-Cong Chen , Philipp Podsiadlowski

We present the radio continuum counterparts to the enigmatic ultra-compact X-ray binaries (UCXBs); a black hole or neutron star accreting from a hydrogen-deficient white dwarf donor star, with short orbital periods ($<$ 80 minutes). For the…

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
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