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We considered the formation of detached white dwarf main-sequence star (WDMS) binaries through seven evolutionary channels subdivided according to the evolutionary process that gives rise to the formation of the white dwarf or its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Willems , U. Kolb

Interacting binaries containing white dwarfs can lead to a variety of outcomes that range from powerful thermonuclear explosions, which are important in the chemical evolution of galaxies and as cosmological distance estimators, to strong…

Compact-object binaries including a white dwarf component are unique among gravitational-wave sources because their evolution is governed not just by general relativity and tides, but also by mass transfer. While the black hole and neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-07 Sylvia Biscoveanu , Kyle Kremer , Eric Thrane

Using a detailed Galactic model in which we consider distinct contributions from the bulge, thin disc, thick disc, and halo, and a population synthesis approach, we determined the birth rates, numbers, and period distributions of double…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Shenghua Yu , C. Simon Jeffery

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

Binary stars consisting of a white dwarf and a main sequence star (WDMS) are valuable for studying key astrophysical questions. However, observational biases strongly affect the known population, particularly unresolved systems where the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Alejandro Santos-García , Santiago Torres , Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas , Alex J. Brown

Hierarchical triple systems are common among field stars yet their long-term evolution is poorly understood theoretically. In such systems Kozai cycles can be induced in the inner binary system during which the inner orbit eccentricity and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Adrian S. Hamers , Onno R. Pols , Joke S. W. Claeys , Gijs Nelemans

We demonstrate a method to fully characterize mass-transferring double white dwarf (DWD) systems with a helium-rich (He) WD donor based on the mass--radius relationship for He WDs. Using a simulated Galactic population of DWDs, we show that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-09 Katelyn Breivik , Kyle Kremer , Michael Bueno , Shane L. Larson , Scott Coughlin , Vassiliki Kalogera

Ultra-compact double white dwarfs (DWDs) represent key targets for multi-messenger astrophysics, as they may be observed both through gravitational waves and the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. The future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Alice Perego , Astrid Lamberts , Mathias Schultheis , Nelson Christensen

Galactic interacting double white dwarfs (DWD) are guaranteed gravitational wave (GW) sources for the GW detector LISA, with more than 10^4 binaries expected to be detected over the mission's lifetime. Part of this population is expected to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Francesca Valsecchi , Will M. Farr , Bart Willems , Christopher . J. Deloye , Vassiliki Kalogera

This study investigates the conditions under which gravitational waves (GWs) are emitted during the merger of hot white dwarfs (WDs) in a binary system. Traditionally, these systems consist of two low-mass stars or a more massive WD paired…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 Sílvia P. Nunes , José D. V. Arbañil , César H. Lenzi , Jaziel G. Coelho

Context. Understanding the survival and orbital evolution of brown dwarf (BD) companions during the post-main-sequence (MS) evolution of their host stars is increasingly important, especially with recent discoveries of many substellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Zhangliang Chen , Hongming Jin , Hongwei Ge , Cong Yu , Kejun Wang , Dichang Chen , Bo Ma

We examine the statistics of main-sequence / main-sequence, main-sequence / white-dwarf and white-dwarf / white-dwarf wide binaries at 10^2.5-10^4 AU separations in Gaia data. For binaries containing a white dwarf, we find a complex…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Hsiang-Chih Hwang , Nadia Zakamska

The effectiveness and stability of mass transfer in binaries system are crucial in determining its final product. Rapid binary population synthesis (BPS) codes simplify the complex physics of mass transfer by adopting parameterized…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 A. C. Rubio , K. Breivik , C. Badenes , K. El-Badry , B. Anguiano , E. Linck , S. Majewski , K. Stassun

Neutron star$-$white dwarf (NSWD) binaries are one of the most abundant sources of gravitational waves (GW) in the Milky Way. These GW sources are the evolutionary products of primordial binaries that experienced many processes of binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-11 Jian-Guo He , Yong Shao , Xiao-Jie Xu , Xiang-Dong Li

The formation channels and predicted populations of double-white dwarfs (DWDs) are important because a subset will evolve to be gravitational-wave sources and/or progenitors of Type Ia supernovae. Given the observed population of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 E. C. Wilson , J. Nordhaus

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

Wide binaries made up of two white dwarfs (WDs) receive far less attention than their tight counterparts. However, our tests using the binary population synthesis code {\tt StarTrack} indicate that, for any set of reasonable initial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jeff J. Andrews , Marcel A. Agüeros , Krzysztof Belczynski , Saurav Dhital , S. J. Kleinman , Andrew A. West

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

We present a method to characterize statistically the parameters of a detached binary sample - binary fraction, separation distribution, and mass ratio distribution - using noisy radial-velocity data with as few as two, randomly spaced,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Dan Maoz , Carles Badenes , Steven J. Bickerton