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We consider gravitational waves emitted by various populations of compact binaries at cosmological distances. We use population synthesis models to characterize the properties of double neutron stars, double black holes and double white…

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

We examine the selection effects that determine how the population of inspiraling binary compact objects (BCOs) is reflected by those potentially observed with ground-based interferometers like LIGO. We lay the ground-work for the…

Galactic ultra compact binaries are expected to be the dominant source of gravitational waves in the milli-Hertz frequency band. Of the tens of millions of galactic binaries with periods shorter than an hour, it is estimated that a few tens…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Tyson Littenberg , Neil Cornish , Kristen Lackeos , Travis Robson

Double white dwarfs are important gravitational wave sources for LISA, as they are some of the most numerous compact systems in our universe. Here we consider finite-sized effects due to tidal interactions, as they are expected to have a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-12 Grace Fiacco , Neil J. Cornish , Hang Yu

Resolving individual gravitational waves from tens of millions of double white dwarf (DWD) binaries in the Milky Way is a challenge for future space-based gravitational wave detection programs. By using previous data to define the priors…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-13 Pin Gao , Xi-Long Fan , Zhou-Jian Cao , Xue-Hao Zhang

Gravitational radiation from the Galactic population of close white dwarf binaries (CWDBs) is expected to produce a confusion-limited signal at the lower end of the sensitivity band of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Benacquista , K. Holley-Bockelmann

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…

A large number of galactic binary systems emit gravitational waves (GW) continuously with frequencies below $\sim$10 mHz. The LISA mission could identify tens of thousands of binaries over years of observation and will be subject to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-26 Gang Wang , Zhen Yan , Bin Hu , Wei-Tou Ni

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which is currently under construction, is designed to measure gravitational wave signals in the milli-Hertz frequency band. It is expected that tens of millions of Galactic binaries will be the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Cedric Schmelzbach , Simon C. Stähler , Domenico Giardini

Population inference in gravitational-wave astronomy allows us to connect individual detections to the astrophysics of compact objects and their environments. Current approaches employed for population inference with LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Alexander W. Criswell , Sharan Banagiri , Vera Delfavero , Maria Jose Bustamante-Rosell , Stephen R. Taylor , Robert Rosati

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

In the context of the future Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, galactic binary systems of white dwarfs and neutron stars will represent the dominant source of Gravitational Waves (GWs) within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-28 Adrien Bourgoin , Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte , Stéphane Mathis , Marie-Christine Angonin

Context. Galactic binaries account for the loudest combined continuous gravitational wave signal in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) band, which spans a frequency range of 0.1 mHz to 1 Hz. Aims. A superposition of low frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-18 Kristen Lackeos , Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil J. Cornish , James I. Thorpe

Binary interaction can cause stellar envelopes to be stripped, which significantly reduces the radius of the star. The orbit of a binary composed of a stripped star and a compact object can therefore be so tight that the gravitational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Y. Götberg , V. Korol , A. Lamberts , T. Kupfer , K. Breivik , B. Ludwig , M. R. Drout

We explore the prospects for the detection of giant circumbinary exoplanets and brown dwarfs (BDs) orbiting Galactic double white dwarfs binaries (DWDs) with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). By assuming an occurrence rate of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-18 Camilla Danielski , Valeriya Korol , Nicola Tamanini , Elena Maria Rossi

LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is a proposed space mission, which will use coherent laser beams exchanged between three remote spacecraft to detect and study low-frequency cosmic gravitational radiation. In the low-part of its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Jeffrey A. Edlund , Massimo Tinto , Andrzej Królak , Gijs Nelemans

Within its observational band the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, LISA, will simultaneously observe orbital modulated waveforms from Galactic white dwarf binaries, a binary black hole produced gravitational-wave background, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-08 Guillaume Boileau , Astrid Lamberts , Nelson Christensen , Neil J. Cornish , Renate Meyer

White dwarfs comprise 95% of all stellar remnants, and are thus an excellent tracer of old stellar populations in the Milky Way. Current and planned telescopes are not able to directly probe the white dwarf population in its entirety due to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-14 Katelyn Breivik , Chiara M. F. Mingarelli , Shane L. Larson

We calculate how accurately parameters of the short-period binaries $(10^{-4} {Hz} \lsim f\lsim 10^{-2} {Hz})$ will be determined from the gravitational waves by LISA. In our analysis the chirp signal ${\dot f}$ is newly included as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ryuichi Takahashi , Naoki Seto