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Title: Exploring the Orbital Alignments of Galactic Close White Dwarf Binaries with LISA

Authors: Naoki Seto
Abstract: Using the proposed space gravitational wave detector LISA, we will be able to measure the geometrical configurations of $\sim 10^4$ close white dwarf binaries in our Galaxy. The obtained data will be an entirely new resource to examine the randomness of their orbital orientations. Partly motivated by a recent reported on the systematic alignments of bulge planetary nebulae, we discuss the outlook of the orientational analysis with LISA. We find that a quadrupole pattern as small as $\sim 0.05$ can be detected for bulge white dwarf binaries, owing to their large available number. From such a pattern analysis, we might geometrically explore fossil records in our Galaxy billions of years ago.
Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in PRD
Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
Cite as: arXiv:2404.13313 [astro-ph.HE]
  (or arXiv:2404.13313v1 [astro-ph.HE] for this version)

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From: Naoki Seto [view email]
[v1] Sat, 20 Apr 2024 08:05:14 GMT (779kb,D)

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