The lisa gravitational wave foreground: A study of double white dwarfs

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 717, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1006-1021

  Ruiter, Ashley J ^a,b,c   Belczynski, Krzysztof ^d,e   Benacquista, Matthew ^f   Larson, Shane L ^g   Williams, Gabriel ^f,h  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

^g UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

binaries: close; gravitation; gravitational waves; stars: evolution; white dwarfs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953908565     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/717/2/1006     Document Type: Article

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