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We present rotation periods for the solar-type primary stars in 13 close (a~< 5 AU) single-lined spectroscopic binaries with known orbital periods (P) and eccentricities (e). All binaries are members of the open clusters M35 (150Myr) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Soren Meibom , Robert D. Mathieu , Keivan G. Stassun

Although the sample of exoplanets in binaries has been greatly expanded, the sample heterogeneity and observational bias are obstacles toward a clear figure of exoplanet demographics in the binary environment. To overcome the obstacles, we…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Xiang-Ning Su , Ji-Wei Xie , Ji-Lin Zhou , Philippe Thebault

Several classes of stellar binaries with post-main sequence (post-MS) components - millisecond pulsars with the white dwarf companions (MSP+WD) and periods P_b~30 d, binaries hosting post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) stars or barium…

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We present a comparison between the rotation period distributions of solar-type single stars and primary stars in close binaries (0.1 AU ~< a ~< 5 AU) in the young (150 Myr) open cluster M35 (NGC 2168). We find that the primary stars in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Meibom , R. D. Mathieu , K. G. Stassun

We describe a search for close spectroscopic dwarf M star binaries using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to address the question of the rate of occurrence of multiplicity in M dwarfs. We use a template fitting technique to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Benjamin M. Clark , Cullen H. Blake , Gillian R. Knapp

We present the to-date largest parameter space exploration of binaries in circumbinary disks (CBDs), deriving orbital evolution prescriptions for eccentric, unequal mass binaries from our suite of hydrodynamic simulations. In all cases,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-26 Magdalena Siwek , Rainer Weinberger , Lars Hernquist

The eccentricity of a sub-stellar companion is an important tracer of its formation history. Directly imaged companions often present poorly constrained eccentricities. A recently developed prior framework for orbit fitting called…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-20 Clarissa R. Do Ó , Kelly K. O'Neil , Quinn M. Konopacky , Tuan Do , Gregory D. Martinez , Jean-Baptiste Ruffio , Andrea M. Ghez

We develop a technique for estimating the inner eccentricity in hierarchical triple systems, with the inner orbit being initially circular, while the outer one is eccentric. We consider coplanar systems with well separated components and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-27 Nikolaos Georgakarakos

Deriving the distribution of binary parameters for a particular class of stars over the full range of orbital separations usually requires the combination of results from many different observing techniques (radial velocities,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Nancy Remage Evans , Howard E. Bond , Gail H. Schaefer , Brian D. Mason , Margarita Karovska , Evan Tingle

Eccentricity of binary systems is not a gauge invariant quantity, but has an important impact on the observed gravitational wave signal of such systems, generating power in all possible harmonics of the orbital period. We here clarify the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-21 Nicholas Loutrel , Samuel Liebersbach , Nicolas Yunes , Neil Cornish

Radial velocity measurements can be used to constrain the dynamical state of a stellar cluster. However, for clusters with velocity dispersions smaller than a few km/s the observed radial velocity distribution tends to be dominated by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Michiel Cottaar , Michael R. Meyer , Richard J. Parker

GAIA wide stellar binaries (separations $\sim 10^3-10^{4.5}$ AU) are observed to have a superthermal eccentricity distribution function (DF), well-fit by $P(e) \propto e^\alpha$ with $\alpha \sim 1.2$. In Modak \& Hamilton (2023), we proved…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-04 Chris Hamilton , Shaunak Modak

A major puzzle concerning the wide stellar binaries (semimajor axes $a\gtrsim 10^3$\,AU) in the Solar neighborhood is the origin of their observed superthermal eccentricity distribution function (DF), which is well-approximated by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-31 Shaunak Modak , Chris Hamilton

We demonstrate that a natural consequence of an asymmetric kick imparted to neutron stars at birth is that the majority of double neutron star binaries should possess highly eccentric orbits. This leads to greatly accelerated orbital decay,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. K. Chaurasia , M. Bailes

In this paper, some statistical distributions of wide pairs included in Double Star Catalogue are investigated. Frequency distributions and testing hypothesis are derived for some basic parameters of visual binaries. The results reached…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 H. I. Abdel-Rahman , M. I. Nouh , W. H. Elsanhoury

It is suggested that the distribution of orbital eccentricities for extrasolar planets is well-described by the Beta distribution. Several properties of the Beta distribution make it a powerful tool for this purpose. For example, the Beta…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 David M. Kipping

We develop a technique for estimating the inner eccentricity in hierarchical triple systems with well separated components. We investigate systems with initially circular and coplanar orbits and comparable masses. The technique is based on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-26 Nikolaos Georgakarakos

A number of binary systems present evidence of enhanced activity around periastron passage, suggesting a connection between tidal interactions and these periastron effects. The aim of this investigation is to study the time-dependent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 E. Moreno , G. Koenigsberger , D. M. Harrington

We perform high-resolution, grid-based hydrodynamics simulations of gaseous rings viscously spreading into disks around equal-mass, circular binaries. We find that all systems suppress accretion onto the binary when the gas is relatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-07 Leonardo Betancourt , Andrew MacFadyen , Jonathan Zrake