Gravitational radiation from strongly magnetized white dwarfs |
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Authors: | Jeremy S Heyl |
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Institution: | Theoretical Astrophysics 130–33, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA |
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Abstract: | The magnetic fields of white dwarfs distort their shape generating an anisotropic moment of inertia. A magnetized white dwarf that rotates obliquely relative to the symmetry axis has a mass quadrupole moment that varies in time, so it will emit gravitational radiation. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna ( LISA ) mission may be able to detect the gravitational waves from two nearby, rapidly rotating white dwarfs. |
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Keywords: | gravitation binaries: close stars: magnetic fields novae cataclysmic variables white dwarfs |
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