Gravitational radiation from differentially rotating and oscillating white dwarfs |
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Authors: | D. M. Sedrakian K. M. Shahabasyan M. K. Shahabasyan |
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Affiliation: | (1) Erevan State University, Armenia |
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Abstract: | We examine the possible emission of gravitational waves from white dwarfs undergoing self-similar oscillations driven by the energy released during relaxation of their differential rotation. Two distributions of the initial angular momentum are considered. It is assumed that 1% of the energy dissipated by a rotating white dwarf is converted into the energy of self-similar oscillations and, therefore, into gravitational radiation. The relative amplitude of the gravitational radiation from an isolated white dwarf at a distance of 50 pc is found to be less than 10−27. The emission from the galactic population of white dwarfs may create a background which overlaps the random cosmological background of gravitational radiation for the improved decihertz detectors currently being proposed. __________ Translated from Astrofizika, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 231–242 (May 2006). |
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Keywords: | stars white dwarfs gravitational radiation |
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