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Eccentricity of wide binaries is difficult to measure due to their long orbital periods. With Gaia's high-precision astrometric measurements, eccentricity of a wide binary can be constrained by the angle between the separation vector and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Hsiang-Chih Hwang , Yuan-Sen Ting , Nadia L. Zakamska

Distribution of eccentricities of very wide (up to 10 kau) low-mass binaries in the solar neighborhood is studied using the catalog of El-Badry and Rix (2018) based on Gaia. Direction and speed of relative motions in wide pairs contain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-11 Andrei Tokovinin

Future Gaia and Legacy Survey of Space and Time data releases, together with wide area spectroscopic surveys, will deliver large samples of resolved binary stars with phase space coordinates, albeit with low-cadence. Given an eccentricity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-14 David Benisty , N. Wyn Evans , Anne-Christine Davis

We have compiled a sample of 16 orbits for very low-mass stellar (<0.1 Msun) and brown dwarf binaries, enabling the first comprehensive study of the eccentricity distribution for such objects. We find that very low-mass binaries span a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Trent J. Dupuy , Michael C. Liu

Orbits of stellar binaries are in general eccentric. These eccentricities encode information about their early lives. Here, we use thousands of main-sequence binaries from the Gaia DR3 catalog to reveal that, binaries inwards of a few AU…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Yanqin Wu , Sam Hadden , Janosz Dewberry , Kareem El-Badry , Christopher D. Matzner

A sample of spectroscopic binaries and a sample of single planetary systems, both having main-sequence solar-type primary components, are selected in order to compare their eccentricities. The positions of the objects in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. L. Halbwachs , M. Mayor , S. Udry

The predicted orbital-period distribution of the subdwarf-B (sdB) population is bi-modal with a peak at short (< 10 days) and long (> 500 days) periods. Observationally, many short-period sdB systems are known, but only few wide sdB…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-20 Joris Vos , Roy H. Østensen , Maja Vuckovic , Hans Van Winckel

Radial velocity (RV) monitoring of solar-type visual binaries has been conducted at the CTIO/SMARTS 1.5-m telescope to study short-period systems. Data reduction is described, mean and individual RVs of 163 observed objects are given. New…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-05 Andrei Tokovinin

The degree of spin-orbit alignment in a population of binary stars can be determined from measurements of their orbital inclinations and rotational broadening of their spectral lines. Alignment in a face-on binary guarantees low rotational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-07 Marcus L. Marcussen , Simon H. Albrecht , Joshua N. Winn , Yubo Su , Mia S. Lundkvist , Kevin C. Schlaufman

The formation of close binaries has been an open question for decades. A large fraction of close binaries are in triple systems, suggesting that their formation may be associated with the Kozai-Lidov mechanism. However, this picture remains…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Hsiang-Chih Hwang

We study the wide-binary eccentricity ($e$) distribution in young star clusters and the role of turbulence in setting the form of the $e$ distribution using magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of star cluster formation. The simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-30 Sajay Sunny Mathew , Siyao Xu , Christoph Federrath , Yue Hu , Amit Seta

We analyze accretion-rate time series for equal-mass binaries in co-planar gaseous disks spanning a continuous range of orbital eccentricities up to 0.8, for both prograde and retrograde systems. The dominant variability timescales match…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 Daniel J. D'Orazio , Paul C. Duffell , Christopher Tiede

We report the detection of sixteen binary systems from the Anglo-Australian Planet Search. Solutions to the radial velocity data indicate that the stars have companions orbiting with a wide range of masses, eccentricities and periods. Three…

We report the very first analysis of 27 eclipsing binary systems with high eccentricities that sometimes reach up to 0.8. The orbital periods for these systems range from 1.4 to 37 days, and the median of the sample is 10.3 days. Star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-17 P. Zasche , Z. Henzl , M. Masek

We examine the statistics of main-sequence / main-sequence, main-sequence / white-dwarf and white-dwarf / white-dwarf wide binaries at 10^2.5-10^4 AU separations in Gaia data. For binaries containing a white dwarf, we find a complex…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Hsiang-Chih Hwang , Nadia Zakamska

This work provides a statistical analysis of the massive star binary characteristics in the Cygnus OB2 Association using radial velocity information of 114 B3-O3 primary stars and orbital properties for the 24 known binaries. We compare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniel C. Kiminki , Henry A. Kobulnicky

To improve the statistics of hierarchical multiplicity, secondary components of wide nearby binaries with solar-type primaries were surveyed at the SOAR telescope for evaluating the frequency of subsystems. Images of 17 faint secondaries…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Andrei Tokovinin

We used the database of $1040$ short-period ($1 \leq P < 200$ days) exoplanets radial-velocity (RV) orbits to study the planetary eccentricity-period (PEP) distribution. We first divided the sample into low- and high-mass exoplanet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-14 Dolev Bashi , Tsevi Mazeh , Simchon Faigler

We report the discovery of 24 spectroscopic binary companions to giant stars. We fully constrain the orbital solution for 6 of these systems. We cannot unambiguously derive the orbital elements for the remaining stars because the phase…

We re-analyze the pristine eclipsing binary data from the $\textit{Kepler}$ and TESS missions, focusing on eccentricity measurements at short orbital periods to emperically constrain tidal circularization. We find an average circularization…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 J. J. Zanazzi
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