Gravitational radiation from strongly magnetized white dwarfs

Authors
Heyl, JS
Citation
Js. Heyl, Gravitational radiation from strongly magnetized white dwarfs, M NOT R AST, 317(2), 2000, pp. 310-314
Citations number
39
Categorie Soggetti
Space Sciences
Journal title
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
ISSN journal
00358711 → ACNP
Volume
317
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
310 - 314
Database
ISI
SICI code
0035-8711(20000911)317:2<310:GRFSMW>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
The magnetic fields of white dwarfs distort their shape generating an aniso tropic moment of inertia. A magnetized white dwarf that rotates obliquely r elative to the symmetry axis has a mass quadrupole moment that varies in ti me, 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.