Dutch students warn space mission of noisy white dwarfs

Oct 16, 2024

The background noise of gravitational waves from orbiting white dwarf stars will be stronger than the noise from binary black holes. This is what two Dutch master's students and their supervisor predict in two papers in anticipation of the LISA space mission. Until now, that mission did not account for noisy white dwarfs. Fortunately, the noise can be filtered out and even provide new information.