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Participant	Brown, Warren
Institution	Smithsonian Institution - 60 Garden St - Cambridge - MA - USA

Session	WD1-3	Accepted	Yes	Order	6P	Time	17:00	30'
Talk	Oral abstract	Title	Observed Merger Rate of White Dwarf Binaries
Coauthors	M. Kilic
Abstract	The strongest known gravitational wave sources in the mHz regime are double degenerate binaries containing extremely low mass <0.3 Msun white dwarfs (WDs). Such objects only form in ultra-compact binaries, and in the last few years we have published over 80 low mass WD binaries from our targeted ELM Survey. The shortest orbital period systems will contact in 1 million yr. In this talk I will present the observed merger rate of low mass WD binaries, and compare this rate with possible end products such as under-luminous supernovae.
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Session	WD1-3	Accepted		Order		Time
Talk	Oral abstract	Title	Observed Merger Rate of White Dwarf Binaries
Coauthors	Kilic, Mukremin
Abstract	The strongest known gravitational wave sources in the mHz regime are double degenerate binaries containing extremely low mass <0.3 Msun white dwarfs (WDs). Such objects only form in ultra-compact binaries, and in the last few years we have published over 80 such binaries from our targeted ELM Survey. The shortest orbital period systems will contact in 1 million yr. In this talk I will present the inferred merger rate of these WD binaries, and compare this rate with possible end products such as under-luminous supernovae.
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