Posted: Jul 25, 2019 10:02 am
Even though there have been many candidate mergers observed by the LIGO/VIRO teams over the past few months, here's a "truth is stranger than fiction" observation from a team reporting to the National Optical Astronomy News.
The report is of a binary white dwarf system with a period of just 6.91 minutes (and an orbital diameter that would fit the system within the planet Saturn) making it the fastest white dwarf binary system yet observed. The dynamics are calculated to yield gravitational wave emissions suited exactly to the mid-region of detectability in the proposed LISA space-based gravitational wave observatory.
2 stars orbiting each other in less than 7 minutes!
Full story at link above.
The report is of a binary white dwarf system with a period of just 6.91 minutes (and an orbital diameter that would fit the system within the planet Saturn) making it the fastest white dwarf binary system yet observed. The dynamics are calculated to yield gravitational wave emissions suited exactly to the mid-region of detectability in the proposed LISA space-based gravitational wave observatory.
2 stars orbiting each other in less than 7 minutes!
Full story at link above.