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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

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

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

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…

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

White dwarfs (WDs) are powerful tools to study the evolutionary history of stars and binaries in the Galaxy. But do we understand their multiplicity from a theoretical point of view? This can be tested by a comparison with the sample of WDs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 S. Toonen , M. Hollands , B. T. Gaensicke , T. Boekholt

Binary population synthesis (BPS) study provides a comprehensive way to understand evolutions of binaries and their end products. Close white dwarf (WD) binaries have crucial characteristics in examining in uence of yetunresolved physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-22 Iminhaji Ablimit , Keiichi Maeda , Xiang-Dong Li

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

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

The binary systems consisting of a Be star and a white dwarf (BeWDs) are very interesting.They can originate from the binaries composed of a Be star and a subdwarf O or B star (BesdOBs), and they can merge into red giants via luminous red…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-06 ChunHua Zhu , GuoLiang Lü , Xizhen Lu , Jie He

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…

Astrometry from the Gaia mission has revealed a large population of white dwarf (WD) + main sequence (MS) binaries with periods of $100 - 1000\,$d. These systems have separations intermediate to predictions from standard binary evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-14 Natsuko Yamaguchi , Kareem El-Badry , Sahar Shahaf

We present the successful recovery of common envelope ejection efficiency assumed in a simulated population of double white dwarf binaries like those which may be observed by the future LISA mission. We simulate the formation of double…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-27 Vera Delfavero , Katelyn Breivik , Sarah Thiele , Richard O'Shaughnessy , John G. Baker

White dwarfs (WDs), the evolutionary endpoints of most stars, can form through both single-star and binary channels. While single-star evolutionary models enable reliable WD age estimates, binary evolution introduces interactions that can…

Mass transfer stability is an essential issue in binary evolution. Ge et al. studied critical mass ratios for dynamically stable mass transfer by establishing adiabatic mass loss model and found that the donor stars on the giant branches…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Zhenwei LI , Xuefei Chen , Hongwei Ge , Hai-Liang Chen , Zhanwen Han

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

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 Astrid Lamberts , Sarah Blunt , Tyson Littenberg , Shea Garrison-Kimmel , Thomas Kupfer , Robyn Sanderson

Double white dwarf (DWD) binaries are important for studies of common-envelope (CE) evolution, Type Ia supernova progenitors and Galactic sources of low-frequency gravitational waves (GWs). PTF J0533+0209 is a DWD system with a short…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-29 Hai-Liang Chen , Thomas M. Tauris , Xuefei Chen , Zhanwen Han

Planetary formation might occur at different stages of the stellar evolution of compact binaries. In recent years, the formation of second-generation planets has been tested in circumbinary discs formed by the ejection of stellar material…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Arianna Nigioni , Diego Turrini , Camilla Danielski , Danae Polychroni , John E. Chambers

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
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