Speaker
Prof.
Thomas Tauris
(Aarhus University)
Description
Prime candidate sources for LISA are the numerous Galactic tight binaries of white dwarfs (WDs) and neutron stars (NSs), many of which will coalesce and undergo mass transfer, leading to simultaneous emission of X-rays and gravitational waves (GWs). I present ongoing work on modelling these sources and demonstrate evolutionary tracks of their characteristic strain amplitude and dynamical chirp masses. I show how a precise detection of the chirp masses in detached systems allows determination of the NS mass to an accuracy of a few percent. Finally, I discuss dual-line GW sources.
Primary author
Prof.
Thomas Tauris
(Aarhus University)
Co-author
Dr
Hailiang Chen
(Yunnan Observatories (CAS))
