Tidal resonance locks in inspiraling white dwarf binaries

Tidal resonance locks in inspiraling white dwarf binaries

We calculate the tidal response of helium and carbon/oxygen (C/O) white dwarf (WD) binaries inspiraling due to gravitational wave emission. We show that resonance locks, previously considered in binaries with an early-type star, occur universally in WD binaries. In a resonance lock, the orbital and...

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Main Authors: Weinberg, Nevin N. (Contributor), Burkart, Joshua (Author), Quataert, Eliot (Author), Arras, Phil (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press, 2014-08-07T16:17:36Z.
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