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A multimessenger study of the Milky Way’s stellar disc and bulge with LISA, Gaia, and LSST
The upcoming LISA mission offers the unique opportunity to study the Milky Way through gravitational wave radiation from Galactic binaries. Among the variety of Galactic gravitational wave sources, LISA is expected to individually resolve signals from ∼105 ultra-compact double white dwarf (DWD) binaries. DWDs detected by LISA will be distributed across the Galaxy, including regions that are hardly accessible to electromagnetic observations such as the inner part of the Galactic disc, the bulge and beyond. We quantitatively show that the large number of DWD detections will allow us to use these systems as tracers of the Milky Way potential. We demonstrate that density profiles of DWDs detected by LISA may provide constraints on the scale length parameters of the baryonic components that are both accurate and precise, with statistical errors of a few percent to 10 percent level. Furthermore, the LISA sample is found to be sufficient to disentangle between different (commonly used) disc profiles, by well covering the disc out to sufficiently large radii. Finally, up to ∼80 DWDs can be detected through both electromagnetic and gravitational wave radiation. This enables multi-messenger astronomy with DWD binaries and allows one to extract their physical properties using both probes. We show that fitting the Galactic rotation curve constructed using distances inferred from gravitational waves {\it and} proper motions from optical observations yield a unique and competitive estimate of the bulge mass. Instead robust results for the stellar disc mass are contingent upon knowledge of the Dark Matter content
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Constraining the Milky Way potential with Double White Dwarfs
The 21st European Workshop on White Dwarfs was held in Austin, TX from July 23rd to 27th of 2018The upcoming LISA mission is the only experiment
that will allow us to study the Milky Way’s structure
using gravitational wave signals from Galactic double
white dwarfs (DWDs). The total number of expected
detections exceeds 105. Furthermore, up to
a hundred DWDs can be simultaneously detected in
both gravitational and optical radiation (e.g. with
Gaia and LSST as eclipsing), making DWDs ideal
sources for performing a multi-messenger tomography
of the Galaxy. We show that LISA will detect
DWDs everywhere, mapping also the opposite side
of the Galaxy. This complete coverage will : (1)
provide precise and unbiased constraints on the
scale radii of the Milky Way’s bulge and disc, and
(2) allow us to compute the rotation curve and derive
competitive estimates for the bulge and disc
masses, when combining gravitational wave and
optical observations.Astronom
Total spectrum of photon emission by an ultra-relativistic positron channeling in a periodically bent crystal
We present the results of numerical calculations of the channelling and
undulator radiation generated by an ultra-relativistic positron channelling
along a crystal plane, which is periodically bent. The bending might be due
either to the propagation of a transverse acoustic wave through the crystal, or
due to the static strain as it occurs in superlattices. The periodically bent
crystal serves as an undulator. We investigate the dependence of the
intensities of both the ordinary channelling and the undulator radiations on
the parameters of the periodically bent channel with simultaneous account for
the dechannelling effect of the positrons. We demonstrate that there is a range
of parameters in which the undulator radiation dominates over the channelling
one and the characteristic frequencies of both types of radiation are well
separated. This result is important, because the undulator radiation can be
used to create a tunable source of X-ray and gamma-radiation.Comment: published in J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 26 (2000) L87-L95,
http://www.iop.org ; 12 pages, 4 figures, LaTe
Stable propagation of a modulated positron beam in a bent crystal channel
The propagation of a modulated positron beam in a planar crystal channel is
investigated. It is demonstrated that the beam preserves its modulation at
sufficiently large penetration depths which opens the prospect of using a
crystalline undulator as a coherent source of hard x-rays. This finding is a
crucial milestone in developing a new type of lasers radiating in the hard
x-ray and gamma-ray range.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, iopar
The influence of the dechanneling process on the photon emission by an ultra-relativistc positron channeling in a periodically bent crystal
We investigate, both analytically and numerically, the influence of the
dechanneling process on the parameters of undulator radiation generated by
ultra-relativistic positron channelling along a crystal plane, which is
periodically bent. The bending might be due either to the propagation of a
transverse acoustic wave through the crystal, or due to the static strain as it
occurs in superlattices. In either case the periodically bent crystal serves as
an undulator which allows to generate X-ray and gamma-radiation.
We propose the scheme for accurate quantitative treatment of the radiation in
presence of the dechanneling. The scheme includes (i) the analytic expression
for spectral-angular distribution which contains, as a parameter, the
dechanneling length, (ii) the simulation procedure of the dechanneling process
of a positron in periodically bent crystals. Using these we calculate the
dechanneling lengths of 5 GeV positrons channeling in Si, Ge and W crystals,
and the spectral-angular and spectral distributions of the undulator over broad
ranges of the photons. The calculations are performed for various parameters of
the channel bending.Comment: published in J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 27 (2001) 95-125,
http://www.iop.or
Channeling of Positrons through Periodically Bent Crystals: on Feasibility of Crystalline Undulator and Gamma-Laser
The electromagnetic radiation generated by ultra-relativistic positrons
channelling in a crystalline undulator is discussed. The crystalline undulator
is a crystal whose planes are bent periodically with the amplitude much larger
than the interplanar spacing. Various conditions and criteria to be fulfilled
for the crystalline undulator operation are established. Different methods of
the crystal bending are described. We present the results of numeric
calculations of spectral distributions of the spontaneous radiation emitted in
the crystalline undulator and discuss the possibility to create the stimulated
emission in such a system in analogy with the free electron laser. A careful
literature survey covering the formulation of all essential ideas in this field
is given. Our investigation shows that the proposed mechanism provides an
efficient source for high energy photons, which is worth to study
experimentally.Comment: 52 pages, MikTeX, 14 figure
Hybridization-related correction to the jellium model for fullerenes
We introduce a new type of correction for a more accurate description of
fullerenes within the spherically symmetric jellium model. This correction
represents a pseudopotential which originates from the comparison between an
accurate ab initio calculation and the jellium model calculation. It is shown
that such a correction to the jellium model allows one to account, at least
partly, for the sp2-hybridization of carbon atomic orbitals. Therefore, it may
be considered as a more physically meaningful correction as compared with a
structureless square-well pseudopotential which has been widely used earlier.Comment: 16 pages, 10 figure
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