The Beginning and Ends of Double White Dwarfs

The Shortest Period Eclipsing Binary

2 Jul 2019, 10:25

20m

Main Auditorium (Geological Museum)

Talk Short-period Binaries & Gravitational Waves

Speaker

Kevin Burdge (California Institute of Technology)

Description

Here we give new updates on an eclipsing double white dwarf binary with an orbital period of only 6.9 minutes. Additionally, we highlight several other candidate LISA DWD sources discovered using the optical time domain and discuss the future of this class of sources in the era of surveys such as LSST.