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A sample of bright contact binary stars (W UMa-type or EW, and related: with beta Lyr light curves, EB, and ellipsoidal, ELL - in effect, all but the detached, EA), to the limit of Vmax = 7.5 magnitude is deemed to include all discoverable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Slavek M. Rucinski

Multiplicity is a fundamental property that is set early during stellar lifetimes, and it is a stringent probe of the physics of star formation. The distribution of close companions around young stars is still poorly constrained by…

We present the discovery of the widest (~6700 AU) very low mass field binary to date, found in a proper motion cross-match of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Two Micron All Sky Survey. Our follow-up J-band imaging provides a 10-year…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Jacqueline Radigan , David Lafrenière , Ray Jayawardhana , René Doyon

We report the discovery of 152 new high proper motion systems (mu >= 0.4"/yr) in the southern sky (Declination = -47 degrees to 00 degrees) brighter than UKST plate R_{59F} =16.5 via our SuperCOSMOS-RECONS (SCR) search. This paper…

The third data release of Gaia introduced a large catalog of astrometric binaries, out of which about 3,200 are likely main-sequence stars with a white-dwarf (WD) companion. These binaries are typically found with orbital separations of ~1…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-18 Na'ama Hallakoun , Sahar Shahaf , Tsevi Mazeh , Silvia Toonen , Sagi Ben-Ami

We have made sensitive 800-micron continuum observations of low-mass, pre-main sequence (PMS) binary stars with projected separations less than 25 AU in Taurus-Auriga to study disks in the young binary environment. We did not detect any of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Eric L. N. Jensen , Robert D. Mathieu , Gary A. Fuller

We have measured the multiplicity fractions and separation distributions of seven young star-forming regions using a uniform sample of young binaries. Both the multiplicity fractions and separation distributions are similar in the different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Robert R. King , Simon P. Goodwin , Richard J. Parker , Jenny Patience

The search for substellar companions around stars with different masses along the main sequence is critical to understand the different processes leading to the formation of low-mass stars, brown dwarfs, and planets. In particular, the…

We present an extensive sample of ultra-wide binary stars in the solar neighborhood, focusing on separations of $0.01<s/{pc}<1$. Using data from Gaia DR2, we define kinematic sub-populations via the systems' tangential velocities, i.e.,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Hai-Jun Tian , Kareem El-Badry , Hans-Walter Rix , Andrew Gould

We present the Class I protostellar binary separation distribution based on the data tabulated in the companion paper. We verify the excess of Class I binary stars over solar-type main-sequence stars, especially at separations beyond 500…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Connelley , Bo Reipurth , Alan Tokunaga

GJ 758 B is a cold (~600K) companion to a Sun-like star at 29 AU projected separation, which was recently detected with high-contrast imaging. Here we present photometry of the companion in seven photometric bands from Subaru/HiCIAO,…

We present the results of a long term orbit monitoring program, using sparse aperture masking observations taken with NIRC2 on the Keck-II telescope, of seven G to M-type members of the Upper Scorpius subgroup of the Sco-Cen OB association.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Aaron C. Rizzuto , Michael J. Ireland , Trent J Dupuy , Adam L. Kraus

We present a high-contrast imaging survey of intermediate-mass (1.75--4.5 $M_\odot$) stars to search for the most extreme stellar binaries, i.e., for the lowest mass stellar companions. Using adaptive optics at the Lick and Gemini…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 G. Duchene , J. T. Oon , R. J. De Rosa , P. Kantorski , B. Coy , J. J. Wang , S. Thomas , J. Patience , L. Pueyo , E. L. Nielsen , Q. Konopacky

Wide separation gas giant planets present a challenge to current planet formation theories, and the detection and characterisation of these systems enables us to constrain their formation pathways. The WIde Separation Planets In Time…

Direct imaging in the infrared at the diffraction limit of large telescopes is a unique probe of the properties of young planetary systems. We survey 55 single class I and class II stars in Taurus in the L' filter using natural and laser…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-17 A. L. Wallace , J. Kammerer , M. J. Ireland , C. Federrath , A. L. Kraus , S. T. Maddison , A. C. Rizzuto , E. K. Birchall , F. Martinache

We construct from Gaia DR2 an extensive and very pure ($\lesssim 0.2\%$ contamination) catalog of wide binaries containing main-sequence (MS) and white dwarf (WD) components within 200 pc of the Sun. The public catalog contains, after…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Kareem El-Badry , Hans-Walter Rix

The origin of subluminous B stars is still an unsolved problem in stellar evolution. Single star as well as close binary evolution scenarios have been invoked but until now have met with little success. We have carried out a small survey of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 U. Heber , S. Moehler , R. Napiwotzki , P. Thejll , E. M. Green

The fraction of binary stars is an important ingredient to interpret globular cluster dynamical evolution and their stellar population. We investigate the properties of main-sequence binaries measured in a uniform photometric sample of 59…

Extremely wide binary stars represent ideal systems to probe Newtonian dynamics in the low acceleration regimes (<10e-10 m/s/s) typical of the external regions of galaxies. Here we present a study of 60 alleged wide binary stars with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 Riccardo Scarpa , Riccardo Ottolina , Renato Falomo , Aldo Treves

We present millimeter-wave continuum images of four wide (separations 210-800 AU) young stellar binary systems in the Taurus-Auriga star-forming region. For all four sources, the resolution of our observations is sufficient to determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eric L. N. Jensen , Rachel L. Akeson