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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…

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Observations of binaries containing pairs of neutron stars using the upcoming space-based gravitational wave observatory, LISA, have the potential to improve our understanding of neutron star physics and binary evolution. In this work we…

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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…

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The precise measurement of neutron star (NS) spins can provide important insight into the formation and evolution of compact binaries containing NS. While traditional methods of NS spin measurement rely on pulsar observations, gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-01 Ish Gupta

The space-based gravitational wave (GW) detector, \emph{evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna} (eLISA) is expected to observe millions of compact Galactic binaries that populate our Milky Way. GW measurements obtained from the eLISA…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Sweta Shah , Gijs Nelemans

The mass function of neutron stars (NSs) contains information about the late evolution of massive stars, the supernova explosion mechanism, and the equation-of-state of cold, nuclear matter beyond the nuclear saturation density. A number of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-06 John Antoniadis , Thomas M. Tauris , Feryal Ozel , Ewan Barr , David J. Champion , Paulo C. C. Freire

The distance-inclination degeneracy limits gravitational-wave parameter estimation of compact binary mergers. Although the degeneracy can be partially broken by including higher-order modes or precession, these effects are suppressed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-13 Yiqi Xie , Deep Chatterjee , Gilbert Holder , Daniel E. Holz , Scott Perkins , Kent Yagi , Nicolás Yunes

Determining the type of matter that is inside a neutron star (NS) has been a long-standing goal of astrophysics. Despite this, most of the NS equations of state (EOS) that predict maximum masses in the range 1.4-2.8 solar masses are still…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 John A. Tomsick , Matthew W. Muterspaugh

We compare the mass distribution of central stars of planetary nebulae (CSPN) with those of their progeny, white dwarfs (WD). We use a dynamical method to measure masses with an uncertainty of 0.02 M$_\odot$. The CSPN mass distribution is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Gesicki , A. A. Zijlstra

Mass estimates of white dwarfs via electromagnetic methods, often differ from those obtained through gravitational redshift measurements, in some cases with discrepancies ranging in $5-15\%$ across independent datasets. Although many of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-04 Jorge Castelo Mourelle , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , José A. Font , Juan Calderón Bustillo

We present data analysis methods used in detection and the estimation of parameters of gravitational wave signals from the white dwarf binaries in the mock LISA data challenge. Our main focus is on the analysis of challenge 3.1, where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-23 Arkadiusz Błaut , Stanislav Babak , Andrzej Królak

Next-generation gravitational wave detectors are expected to detect millions of compact binary mergers across cosmological distances. The features of the mass distribution of these mergers, combined with gravitational wave distance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Soumendra Kishore Roy , Lieke A. C. van Son , Anarya Ray , Will M. Farr

The future space based gravitational wave detector LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) will observe millions of Galactic binaries constantly present in the data stream. A small fraction of this population (of the order of several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-22 Natalia Korsakova , Stanislav Babak , Michael L. Katz , Nikolaos Karnesis , Sviatoslav Khukhlaev , Jonathan R. Gair

Mergers of black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binaries have now been observed by GW detectors with the recent announcement of GW200105 and GW200115. Such observations not only provide confirmation that these systems exist, but will also give…

In an earlier investigation, we proposed population boundaries for both inspiralling and mass-transferring double white dwarf (DWD) systems in the distance independent "absolute" amplitude-frequency domain of the proposed space-based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ravi kumar Kopparapu

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

I propose a method to detect planets around compact binaries that are strong sources of gravitational radiation. This approach is to measure gravitational-wave phase modulations induced by the planets, and its prospect is studied with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 Naoki Seto

We perform hydrodynamic simulations of mass transfer in binaries that contain a white dwarf and a neutron star (WD-NS binaries), and measure the specific angular momentum of material lost from the binary in disc winds. By incorporating our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-09 Alexey Bobrick , Melvyn B. Davies , Ross P. Church

The observations of optical and near-infrared counterparts of binary neutron star mergers not only enrich our knowledge about the abundance of heavy elements in the Universe, or help reveal the remnant object just after the merger as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-09 Zhenyu Zhu , Ang Li , Tong Liu

The subsequent observing runs of the advanced gravitational-wave detector network will likely provide us with various gravitational-wave observations of binary neutron star systems. For an accurate interpretation of these detections, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Maximiliano Ujevic , Alireza Rashti , Henrique Gieg , Wolfgang Tichy , Tim Dietrich