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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 846, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa8557
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accretion, accretion disks; binaries: general; celestial mechanics; gravitational waves; stars: mass-loss
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- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program [DGE-1324585]
- NASA [NNX13AM10G]
- Northwestern University
- Office of the Provost
- Office for Research
- Northwestern University Information Technology
- NASA [NNX13AM10G, 465051] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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We explore the long-term evolution of mass-transferring white dwarf (WD) binaries undergoing both direct-impact and disk accretion and explore implications of such systems to gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy. We cover a broad range of initial component masses and show that these systems, the majority of which lie within the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) sensitivity range, exhibit prominent negative orbital frequency evolution (chirp) for a significant fraction of their lifetimes. Using a galactic population synthesis, we predict similar to 2700 of these systems will be observable with a negative chirp of 0.1 yr(-2) by a space-based GW detector like LISA. We also show that detections of mass-transferring double WD systems by LISA may provide astronomers with unique ways of probing the physics governing close compact object binaries.
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