Gravitational Wave Modeling of White-Dwarf--Compact-Object Binaries and Observational Outlook

arXiv:2607.24951 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.SR, gr-qc · Submitted 2026-07-27 · Read on arXiv

Tristan S. Weaver, David Radice, Donghui Jeong, Victor Liu

The Pennsylvania State University · The Pennsylvania State University · Korea Institute for Advanced Study · The Pennsylvania State University

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.SR, gr-qc

Submitted: 2026-07-27

Comments: 19 pages, 9 figures

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

Terminology

• Angular Momentum Loss — 14× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Degeneracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
• Advanced LIGO
• GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the Second Part of the Third Observing Run
• GstLAL O4 Online Results Paper
• GWTC-5.0: Observations from the Second Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run and Updates to the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
• GWTC-5.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries
• Population properties and multimessenger prospects of neutron star-black hole mergers following GWTC-3
• The population of merging compact binaries inferred using gravitational waves through GWTC-3
• Detection probability of light compact binary mergers in future observing runs of the current ground-based gravitational wave detector network
• Implications of low neutron star merger rates for gamma-ray bursts, r-process production and Galactic double neutron stars
• Rates of Compact Object Coalescences
• GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
• Advanced Virgo: a 2nd generation interferometric gravitational wave detector
• KAGRA: 2.5 Generation Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector
• Cosmic Explorer: A Submission to the NSF MPSAC ngGW Subcommittee
• The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-Wave Background
• The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves
• The International Pulsar Timing Array
• The International Pulsar Timing Array: Second data release
• Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

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