Probing the Orientation Distribution of Nearby Double White Dwarfs through Gravitational Waves with LISA

arXiv:2607.13363 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-07-15 · Read on arXiv

N. Seto, G. C. Liu

astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-07-15

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Degeneracy — 17× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Angular Error — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Inverse Problem — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

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• When the Stars Align: A 5 {\sigma} Concordance of Planetary Nebulae Major Axes in the Centre of our Galaxy
• LISA data analysis: Source identification and subtraction
• Astrophysics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
• Gravitational-wave emission from compact Galactic binaries
• Prospects for detection of detached double white dwarf binaries with Gaia, LSST and LISA
• Predicting the LISA white dwarf binary population in the Milky Way with cosmological simulations
• TianQin: a space-borne gravitational wave detector
• Science with the TianQin Observatory: Preliminary results on Galactic double white dwarf binaries
• Parameter estimation for Galactic binaries by LISA
• Angular Resolution of the LISA Gravitational Wave Detector
• Exploring the Orbital Alignments of Galactic Close White Dwarf Binaries with LISA
• Measuring the dipole component of possible Galaxy-binary alignment in the mHz band
• A Multimessenger Strategy for Downselecting the Orientations of Galactic Close White Dwarf Binaries
• Search for Higher Harmonic Signals from Close White Dwarf Binaries in the mHz Band

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