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The Gaia Data Release 1 (DR1) sample of white dwarf parallaxes is presented, including 6 directly observed degenerates and 46 white dwarfs in wide binaries. This data set is combined with spectroscopic atmospheric parameters to study the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 P. -E. Tremblay , N. Gentile-Fusillo , R. Raddi , S. Jordan , C. Besson , B. T. Gaensicke , S. G. Parsons , D. Koester , T. Marsh , R. Bohlin , J. Kalirai

Gaia can not individually resolve very close binary systems, however, the collected data can still be used to identify them. A powerful indicator of stellar multiplicity is the sources reported Renormalized Unit Weight Error (ruwe), which…

Gaia Data Release 3 provides novel flux-calibrated low-resolution spectrophotometry for about 220 million sources in the wavelength range 330nm - 1050nm (XP spectra). Synthetic photometry directly tied to a flux in physical units can be…

The 3rd data release of the Gaia mission includes orbital solutions for $> 10^5$ single-lined spectroscopic binaries, representing more than an order of magnitude increase in sample size over all previous studies. This dataset is a treasure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Kareem El-Badry , Hans-Walter Rix

Astrometry from Gaia DR3 has produced a sample of $\sim$170,000 Keplerian orbital solutions, with many more anticipated in the next few years. These data have enormous potential to constrain the population of binary stars, giant planets,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-05 Kareem El-Badry , Casey Lam , Berry Holl , Jean-Louis Halbwachs , Hans-Walter Rix , Tsevi Mazeh , Sahar Shahaf

We present a method to identify likely visual binaries in Gaia eDR3 that does not rely on parallax or proper motion. This method utilizes the various PSF sizes of 2MASS/Gaia, where at $<2.5$" two stars may be unresolved in 2MASS but…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-03 Ilija Medan , Sébastien Lépine

AIMS: With our low-resolution spectroscopic observing program for selected blue proper motion stars, we tried to find new white dwarfs (WDs) in the solar neighbourhood. METHODS: We used the LSPM catalogue with a lower proper motion limit of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 R. -D. Scholz , H. Meusinger , A. Schwope , H. Jahreiß , I. Pelisoli

The publications of Gaia DR2 and DR3 have brought major improvements in stellar astrometry and photometry, particularly regarding the description of the white dwarf sequence. Notably, Gaia DR2 enabled the detection of variability in white…

We present a supervised, probabilistic taxonomic classification of asteroid reflectance spectra from Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3). Using high-quality Gaia DR3 spectra and a reference set of spectra from the literature consisting exclusively of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 Marco Delbo , Thomas Dyer , Ullas Bhat , Chrysa Avdellidou , Laurent Galluccio , Amelia Milton

Close white dwarf binaries consisting of a white dwarf and an A, F, G or K type main sequence star, henceforth close WD+AFGK binaries, are ideal systems to understand the nature of type Ia supernovae progenitors and to test binary evolution…

We revisit the properties and astrophysical implications of the field white dwarf mass distribution in preparation of Gaia applications. Our study is based on the two samples with the best established completeness and most precise…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 P. -E. Tremblay , J. Cummings , J. S. Kalirai , B. T. Gaensicke , N. Gentile-Fusillo , R. Raddi

The Gaia mission's third data release recorded low-resolution spectra for about 100 000 white dwarf candidates. A small subset of these spectra show evidence of characteristic broad Ca II absorption features, implying the accretion of rocky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Xander Byrne , Amy Bonsor , Laura K. Rogers , Mariona Badenas-Agusti

Recent studies of the stellar population in the solar neighborhood (<20 pc) suggest that there are undetected white dwarfs (WDs) in multiple systems with main sequence companions. Detecting these hidden stars and obtaining a more complete…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Ira Bar , Paul Vreeswijk , Avishay Gal-Yam , Eran O. Ofek , Gijs Nelemans

Context. The observed scarcity of brown dwarfs in close orbits (within 10 au) around solar-type stars poses significant questions about the origins of these substellar companions. These questions impact our broader understanding of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 N. Unger , D. Ségransan , D. Barbato , J. -B. Delisle , J. Sahlmann , B. Holl , S. Udry

The initial-final mass relation (IFMR) links a star's birth mass to the mass of its white dwarf (WD) remnant, providing key constraints on stellar evolution. Open clusters offer the most straightforward way to empirically determine the…

We have carried out a search for massive white dwarfs (WDs) in the direction of young open star clusters using the Gaia DR2 database. The aim of this survey was to provide robust data for new and previously known high-mass WDs regarding…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Harvey B. Richer , Ilaria Caiazzo , Helen Du , Steffani Grondin , James Hegarty , Jeremy Heyl , Ronan Kerr , David R. Miller , Sarah Thiele

Using Gaia DR2 data, we present an up-to-date sample of white dwarfs within 20 pc of the Sun. In total we identified 139 systems in Gaia DR2, nine of which are new detections, with the closest of these located at a distance of 13.05 pc. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 M. A. Hollands , P. E. Tremblay , B. T. Gaensicke , N. P. Gentile-Fusillo , S. Toonen

We present a critical review of the determination of fundamental parameters of white dwarfs discovered by the Gaia mission. We first reinterpret color-magnitude and color-color diagrams using photometric and spectroscopic information…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 P. Bergeron , P. Dufour , G. Fontaine , S. Coutu , S. Blouin , C. Genest-Beaulieu , A. Bédard , B. Rolland

Discovery and characterisation of black holes (BHs), neutron stars (NSs), and white dwarfs (WDs) with detached luminous companions (LCs) in wide orbits are exciting because they are important test beds for dark remnant (DR) formation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Anindya Ganguly , Prasanta K. Nayak , Sourav Chatterjee

The third Gaia data release (DR3) contains $\sim$170\,000 astrometric orbit solutions of two-body systems located within $\sim$500 pc of the Sun. Determining component masses in these systems, in particular of stars hosting exoplanets,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 Johannes Sahlmann , Pablo Gómez