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A simulated binary star catalogue is created that represents the full sky distribution of stars, excluding those with galactic latitude $|b|<10\degr$, down to $m_v < 15$. The catalogue is compatible with observed magnitude and number…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pasi Nurmi , Henri M. J. Boffin

Object cross-identification in multiple observations is often complicated by the uncertainties in their astrometric calibration. Due to the lack of standard reference objects, an image with a small field of view can have significantly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Tamas Budavari , Stephen H. Lubow

We present a new method for differentiating between planetary transits and eclipsing binaries based on the presence of the ellipsoidal light variations. These variations can be used to detect stellar secondaries with masses ~0.2 M_sun…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. J. Drake

Using neural networks, we integrate the ability to account for Doppler smearing due to a pulsar's orbital motion with the pulsar population synthesis package \psrpoppy\ to develop accurate modeling of the observed binary pulsar population.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 Nihan Pol , Maura McLaughlin , Duncan R. Lorimer , Nathan Garver-Daniels

Within the next decade, ground based gravitational wave detectors are in principle capable of determining the compact object merger rate per unit volume of the local universe to better than 20% with more than 30 detections. We argue that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. O'Shaughnessy , R. Kopparapu , K. Belczynski

This study examines the characterization of binary star systems using Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs), a technique increasingly essential with the rise of large-scale astronomical surveys. Binaries can emit flux at different regions of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-20 Vikrant V. Jadhav

With its last observing run, the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA collaboration has detected almost one hundred gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences. A common approach to studying the population properties of the observed binaries is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-12 Simone Mastrogiovanni , Astrid Lamberts , Rahul Srinivasan , Tristan Bruel , Nelson Christensen

We present in this paper a technique for imaging binary stars from speckle data. This technique is based upon the computation of the cross-correlation between the speckle frames and their square. This may be considered as a simple, easy to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-27 Eric Aristidi , Marcel Carbillet , Jean-Félix Lyon , Claude Aime

Light curves of microlensing events involving stellar binaries and planetary systems can provide information about the orbital elements of the system due to orbital modulations of the caustic structure. Accurately measuring the orbit in…

This paper investigates the problem of prediction of stellar parameters, based on the star's electromagnetic spectrum. The knowledge of these parameters permits to infer on the evolutionary state of the star. From a statistical point of…

Applications · Statistics 2015-10-21 Sylvain Robbiano , Matthieu Saumard , Michel Curé

Stellar spectral classification is a fundamental tool of modern astronomy, providing insight into physical characteristics such as effective temperature, surface gravity, and metallicity. Accurate and fast spectral typing is an integral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Benjamin R. Roulston , Paul G. Green , Aurora Y. Kesseli

Several methods for identifying Be star candidates are reviewed for observational bias with respect to system inclination, that is the angle between the stellar/disk rotation axis and the observer's line of sight, with focus on two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 B. D. Lailey , T. A. A. Sigut

Binary stars are fundamental to astrophysics, providing critical insights into stellar evolution, galactic dynamics, and fundamental physics. However, the high dimensionality of orbital parameters and observational constraints present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Luo Feng , Zhao YongHeng , Liu Chao

The light-time effect method, its limitations and applications were studied. A powerful combined method of simultaneous analysis of the O-C diagrams and astrometric orbit in triple eclipsing-astrometric binaries was presented. Eleven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 P. Zasche

Binary asteroids probe thermal-radiation effects on the main-belt asteroids' evolution. We discuss the possibility of detecting binary minor planet systems by the astrometric wobble of the center-of-light around the center-of-mass. This…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 Noam Segev , Eran O. Ofek , David Polishook

Context. The CARMENES spectrograph is surveying ~300 M dwarf stars in search for exoplanets. Among the target stars, spectroscopic binary systems have been discovered, which can be used to measure fundamental properties of stars. Aims.…

We develop a novel method to explore the galaxy-halo connection using the galaxy imaging surveys by modeling the projected two-point correlation function measured from the galaxies with reasonable photometric redshift measurements. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Zhaoyu Wang , Haojie Xu , Xiaohu Yang , Y. P. Jing , Hong Guo , Zheng Zheng , Ying Zu , Zhigang Li , Chengze Liu

We present the photometric calibration technique for the Digitized Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (DPOSS), used to create seamless catalogs of calibrated objects over large sky areas. After applying a correction for telescope…

Theories of stellar convective core overshoot can be examined through analysis of pulsating stars. Better accuracy can be achieved by obtaining external constraints such as those provided by observing pulsating stars in eclipsing binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Padraic Odesse , Catherine Lovekin

We present the main-sequence binary (MSMS) Catalog derived from Gaia Data Release 3 BP/RP (XP) spectra. Leveraging the vast sample of low-resolution Gaia XP spectra, we develop a forward modeling approach that maps stellar mass and…