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The Gaia mission is expected to yield the detection of several thousands of exoplanets, perhaps at least doubling the number of known exoplanets. Although the harvest is expected to occur when the astrometric time series will be published…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Flavien Kiefer , Anne-Marie Lagrange , Pascal Rubini , Florian Philipot

We study close approaches in hierarchical triple systems with comparable masses using full N-body simulations, motivated by a recent model for type Ia supernovae involving direct collisions of white dwarfs (WDs). For stable hierarchical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-19 Niv Haim , Boaz Katz

The presence of Gaia DR3 provides a large sample of stars with complete 6D information, offering a fertile ground for the exploration of stellar objects that were accreted to the Milky Way through ancient merger events. In this study, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-26 Zhuohan Li , Gang Zhao , Ruizhi Zhang , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Yuqin Chen , João A. S. Amarante

Recent studies have identified star clusters with multiple components based on accurate spatial distributions and/or proper motions from Gaia DR3, utilising diverse diagnostics to improve our understanding of subgroup evolution. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 J. Gregorio-Hetem , A. Hetem

We have characterized the spectroscopic orbit of the TWA 3A binary and provide preliminary families of probable solutions for the TWA 3A visual orbit as well as for the wide TWA 3A--B orbit. TWA 3 is a hierarchical triple located at 34 pc…

Aims: With the latest Gaia DR3 data, we analyse the widest pairs in the Washington Double Star (WDS) catalogue with angular separations, $\rho$, greater than 1000 arcsec. Methods: We confirmed the pair's membership to stellar systems based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Javier González-Payo , José A. Caballero , Miriam Cortés-Contreras

The Taurus-Auriga complex is the prototypical low-mass star forming region, and provides a unique testbed of the star formation process, which left observable imprints on the spatial, kinematic, and temporal structure of its stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-25 Daniel M. Krolikowski , Adam L. Kraus , Aaron C. Rizzuto

We infer the dynamical masses of stars across the Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram using wide binaries from the Gaia survey. Gaia's high-precision astrometry measures the wide binaries' orbital motion, which contains the mass information.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-07 Hsiang-Chih Hwang , Yuan-Sen Ting , Sihao Cheng , Joshua S. Speagle

Multiplicity is a ubiquitous characteristic of massive stars. Multiple systems offer us a unique observational constraint on the formation of high-mass systems. Herschel 36 A is a massive triple system composed of a close binary (Ab1-Ab2)…

Thanks to the precise astrometric measurements of proper motions by the Gaia mission, a new tidal stellar stream has been discovered in the northern hemisphere. The distribution of star count shows that the stream is approximately $80$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-09 Hao Tian , Chao Liu , Changqing Luo , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Yujiao Yang

The debris from past merger events is expected and, to some extent, known to populate the stellar halo near the Sun. We aim to identify and characterise such merger debris using Gaia DR3 data supplemented by metallicity and chemical…

We report lucky imaging observations of 62 pairs at mid-southern declinations sourced from the WDS with separations larger than 4 arc seconds and magnitude less than 10. The measures comprise separations and PA calibrated against Alpha…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-10 Matthew James , Rod Letchford , Graeme L White , Meg Emery , Stephen Bosi

Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3), published in December 2020, features improved photometry and astrometry over that published in the previous DR2 file, and includes a substantially larger number of sources, of the order of 2,000…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-14 I. González-Santamaría , M. Manteiga , A. Manchado , A. Ulla , C. Dafonte , P. López Varela

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

We present identifications and kinematic analysis of 7,426 massive ($\mathrm{\geq}8M_{\odot}$) stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), using Gaia DR3 data. We used Gaia ($G_\mathrm{BP}-G_\mathrm{RP}$, $G$) color-magnitude diagram to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-19 Satoya Nakano , Kengo Tachihara , Mao Tamashiro

We explore the stability of gravitational triple systems comprising a central massive body and a tight binary of less massive pairs. In the present paper, we focus on improving the Hill-type stability criterion for the binary in those…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Toshinori Hayashi , Alessandro A. Trani , Yasushi Suto

The orbital parameter space of wide, weakly bound binary stars has been shaped by the still poorly known circumstances of their formation, as well as by subsequent dynamical evolution in parent clusters and in the field. The advance of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-07 Valeri V. Makarov

The Gaia mission and its follow-up observations have discovered a few candidates of non-interacting single black holes (BHs) and visible stars, Gaia BH1, BH2, and BH3, collectively called ``astrometric BH binaries''. This paper investigates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-26 Ataru Tanikawa , Long Wang , Michiko S. Fujii , Alessandro A. Trani , Toshinori Hayashi , Yasushi Suto

Binary stars consisting of a white dwarf and a main sequence star (WDMS) are valuable for studying key astrophysical questions. However, observational biases strongly affect the known population, particularly unresolved systems where the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Alejandro Santos-García , Santiago Torres , Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas , Alex J. Brown

Using a penalised maximum likelihood we estimate, for the first time, the velocity distribution of white dwarfs in the Solar neighbourhood. Our sample consists of 129 675 white dwarfs within 500 pc in Gaia Early Data Release 3 The white…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-17 Daniel Mikkola , Paul J. McMillan , David Hobbs , John Wimarsson