AM CVn systems as optical, X-ray and GWR sources

Authors
Publication date 2004
Host editors
  • G. Tovmassian
  • E. Sion
Book title Compact Binaries in the Galaxy and Beyond
Event IAU Conference held in La Paz, Baja California Sur.
Volume | Issue number 20
Pages (from-to) 117-119
Publisher IAU
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract
We discuss the model for the Galactic sample of the AM CVn systems with P[orb] ≤ 1500 s that can be detected in the optical and/or X-ray bands and may be resolved by the gravitational waves detector LISA. At 3 ≲P ≲ 10 min all detectable systems are X-ray sources. At P ≳ 10 min most systems are only detectable in the V-band. About 30% of the X-ray sources is also detectable in the V-band. About 10,000 AM CVn systems might be resolved by LISA; this is comparable to the number of detached double white dwarfs that can be resolved. Several hundreds of AM CVn LISA sources might be also detectable in the V- and/or X-ray bands.
Document type Conference contribution
Published at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2004RMxAC..20..117Y&db_key=AST&high=41f4b95c5121568
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