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Almost half of the stellar systems in the solar neighborhood are made up of multiple stars. In multiple-star systems, planet formation is under the dynamical influence of stellar companions, and the planet occurrence rate is expected to be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ji Wang , Debra A. Fischer , Ji-Wei Xie , David R. Ciardi

One core goal of the Kepler mission was to determine the frequency of Earth-like planets that orbit Sun-like stars. Accurately estimating this planet occurrence rate requires both a well-vetted list of planets and a clear understanding of…

The dynamical influence of binary companions is expected to profoundly influence planetary systems. However, the difficulty of identifying planets in binary systems has left the magnitude of this effect uncertain; despite numerous…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Adam L. Kraus , Michael J. Ireland , Daniel Huber , Andrew W. Mann , Trent J. Dupuy

Although it is commonly agreed that the presence of a close stellar companion is likely to affect planet formation and evolution, the precise effects and their actual impact on planet occurrence and properties are still debated. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 A. Eggenberger , S. Udry

If it is commonly agreed that the presence of a (moderately) close stellar companion affects the formation and the dynamical evolution of giant planets, the frequency of giant planets residing in binary systems separated by less than 100 AU…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Eggenberger , S. Udry , G. Chauvin , T. Forveille , J. -L. Beuzit , A. -M. Lagrange , M. Mayor

Most Sun-like and higher-mass stars reside in systems that include one or more gravitationally bound stellar companions. These systems offer an important probe of planet formation in the most common stellar systems, while also providing key…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 Joseph E. Hand , Malena Rice , Konstantin Gerbig

Wide-field surveys for transiting planets, such as the NASA Kepler and TESS missions, are usually conducted without knowing which stars have binary companions. Unresolved and unrecognized binaries give rise to systematic errors in planet…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 L. G. Bouma , Kento Masuda , J. N. Winn

Spurred by the discovery of numerous exoplanets in multiple systems, binaries have become in recent years one of the main topics in planet formation research. Numerous studies have investigated to what extent the presence of a stellar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Ph. Thebault , N. Haghighipour

Roughly half of Solar-type planet hosts have stellar companions, so understanding how these binary companions affect the formation and evolution of planets is an important component to understanding planetary systems overall. Measuring the…

Close binaries suppress the formation of circumstellar (S-type) planets and therefore significantly bias the inferred planet occurrence rates and statistical trends. After compiling various radial velocity and high-resolution imaging…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Maxwell Moe , Kaitlin M. Kratter

Recent surveys indicate that planets in binary systems are more abundant than previously thought, which is in agreement with theoretical work on disc dynamics and planet formation in binaries. In order to measure the abundance and physical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 J. Hagelberg , N. Engler , C. Fontanive , S. Daemgen , S. P. Quanz , J. Kühn , M. Reggiani , M. Meyer , R. Jayawardhana , V. Kostov

The aim of the project is to improve our knowledge on the multiplicity of planet-host stars at wide physical separations. We cross-matched approximately 6200 square degree area of the Southern sky imaged by the Visible Infrared Survey…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-08 N. Lodieu , A. Perez-Garrido , V. J. S. Bejar , B. Gauza , M. T. Ruiz , R. Rebolo , D. J. Pinfield , E. L. Martin

Using Gaia DR3 data, binary star catalogs have been created containing information on a total of more than 2.6 million pairs. This increases by more than an order of magnitude the ensemble of binary stars with known characteristics, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-30 E. Malik , P. Kaigorodov , D. Kovaleva , O. Malkov

Stellar multiplicity is believed to influence planetary formation and evolution, although the precise nature and extent of this role remain ambiguous. We present a study aimed at testing the role of stellar multiplicity in the formation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-29 C. Fontanive , K. Rice , M. Bonavita , E. Lopez , K. Muzic , B. Biller

Stellar multiplicity is among the oldest and richest problems in astrophysics. Binary stars are a cornerstone of stellar mass and radius measurements that underpin modern stellar evolutionary models. Binaries are the progenitors of many of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-15 Kareem El-Badry

This doctoral thesis studies stellar multiplicity in the solar neighborhood (d < 10 pc) and in systems hosting planets (d < 100 pc). Using data from the Washington Double Star Catalogue, Gaia DR3, and a comprehensive literature review, it…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Javier González-Payo

Transiting circumbinary planets discovered by Kepler provide unique insight into binary star and planet formation. Several features of this new found population, for example the apparent pile-up of planets near the innermost stable orbit,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Rachel A. Smullen , Kaitlin M. Kratter , Andrew Shannon

Over the past 30 years, thousands of exoplanets have been discovered, revealing detailed demographics of planets outside the Solar System. One of the most dramatic features of the planet radius distribution is the radius gap, a lack of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-09 Nathanael Burns-Watson , Kendall Sullivan , Adam Kraus

This note describes an effort to detect additional stellar sources in known transiting exoplanet (TEP) systems, which are unresolved or barely resolved in the Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) catalogue. The presence of multiple unresolved stars in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-01 Daniel Evans

Binary systems are very common among field stars. While this relatively small number of planets in binaries is probably partly due to strong observational biases, there is, however, statistical evidence that planets are indeed less frequent…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-28 Francesco Marzari , Philippe Thebault