The Beginning and Ends of Double White Dwarfs

Known double white dwarfs as LISA sources and the ZTF high-cadence Galactic Plane survey

2 Jul 2019, 09:30

35m

Main Auditorium (Geological Museum)

Talk Short-period Binaries & Gravitational Waves

Speaker

Thomas Kupfer (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics/UC Santa Barbara)

Description

With the data release of Gaia DR2 we were able to derive, for the first time, realistic strain, SNR predictions for the known LISA verification binaries. In this talk I will discuss our approach and result. I will also present an overview and the survey strategy of the ZTF high-cadence Galactic Plane survey which aims to find short period variables at low Galactic latitudes.