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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review D Année : 2022

Impact of dipolar magnetic fields on gravitational wave strain by galactic binaries

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White dwarfs (WDs) and neutron stars (NSs) are among the most magnetized astrophysical objects in the universe, with magnetic fields that can reach up to 109G for WDs and up to 1015G for NSs. The galaxy is expected to be populated with approximately one hundred million of double WD and millions of NS-WD binaries. Throughout the duration of the mission, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe gravitational waves (GWs) emitted simultaneously by more than ten thousand of such galactic binaries. In this paper, we investigate the effect of the magnetic dipole-dipole interaction on the GW signal emitted by magnetic galactic binaries. We derive the secular equations governing the orbital and rotational motion of these objects. Then, we integrate these equations both numerically and analytically. We conclude that the overall visible effect is an additional secular drift of the mean longitude. This drift is proportional to the product of the magnetic moments and is inversely proportional to the 7/2 power of the semimajor axis. Finally, we show that, at zeroth-order in eccentricity, the magnetic dipole-dipole interaction shifts the main frequency of the gravitational strain measured by LISA.

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hal-03536822 , version 1 (20-01-2022)

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Adrien Bourgoin, Christophe Le Poncin-Lafitte, Stéphane Mathis, Marie-Christine Angonin. Impact of dipolar magnetic fields on gravitational wave strain by galactic binaries. Physical Review D, 2022, 105 (12), pp.124042. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.105.124042⟩. ⟨hal-03536822⟩
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