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Post-common-envelope binaries (PCEBs) containing a white dwarf (WD) and a main-sequence (MS) star can constrain the physics of common envelope evolution and calibrate binary evolution models. Most PCEBs studied to date have short orbital…

Astrometry from the Gaia mission has revealed a large population of white dwarf (WD) + main sequence (MS) binaries with periods of $100 - 1000\,$d. These systems have separations intermediate to predictions from standard binary evolution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-14 Natsuko Yamaguchi , Kareem El-Badry , Sahar Shahaf

We use the data provided by the Gaia Early Data Release 3 to search for a highly-complete volume-limited sample of unresolved binaries consisting of a white dwarf and a main sequence companion (i.e. WDMS binaries) within 100pc. We select…

Binary stars containing a white dwarf and a main-sequence star, WDMS binaries, can be used to study a wide range of aspects of stellar astrophysics. We build a magnitude-limited sample of unresolved WDMS binaries from Gaia DR3 to enlarge…

The recently identified Gaia population of main-sequence--white dwarf (MS+WD) binaries at separations of ${\sim}\,1~{\rm AU}$, often with moderate eccentricities, is not readily reproduced by binary population synthesis models. Barium stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Param Rekhi , Sahar Shahaf , Sagi Ben-Ami , Na'ama Hallakoun , Johanna Müller-Horn , Silvia Toonen , Hans-Walter Rix

The third data release of Gaia introduced a large catalog of astrometric binaries, out of which about 3,200 are likely main-sequence stars with a white-dwarf (WD) companion. These binaries are typically found with orbital separations of ~1…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-18 Na'ama Hallakoun , Sahar Shahaf , Tsevi Mazeh , Silvia Toonen , Sagi Ben-Ami

We report discovery and spectroscopic follow-up of 21 astrometric binaries containing solar-type stars and dark companions with masses near 1.4 $M_{\odot}$. The simplest interpretation is that the companions are dormant neutron stars (NSs),…

Common-envelope evolution (CEE) is among the most uncertain phases in binary evolution. To empirically constrain CEE, we construct a uniformly selected sample of eclipsing post--common-envelope binaries (PCEBs). Starting from an unresolved…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Cheyanne Shariat , Kareem El-Badry

The third data release of Gaia was the first to include orbital solutions assuming non-single stars. Here, we apply the astrometric triage technique of Shahaf et al. to identify binary star systems with companions that are not single…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-15 S. Shahaf , N. Hallakoun , T. Mazeh , S. Ben-Ami , P. Rekhi , K. El-Badry , S. Toonen

White dwarfs (WDs) are powerful tools to study the evolutionary history of stars and binaries in the Galaxy. But do we understand their multiplicity from a theoretical point of view? This can be tested by a comparison with the sample of WDs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 S. Toonen , M. Hollands , B. T. Gaensicke , T. Boekholt

White dwarf-main sequence (WDMS) binary systems are essential probes for understanding binary stellar evolution and play a pivotal role in constraining theoretical models of various transient phenomena. In this study, we construct a catalog…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-06 Jiadong Li , Yuan-Sen Ting , Hans-Walter Rix , Gregory M. Green , David W. Hogg , Juan-Juan Ren , Johanna Müller-Horn , Rhys Seeburger

Context. Understanding the demographics of white dwarf - main sequence (WDMS) binaries is key to uncovering the formation of various stellar exotica and refining the details of binary stellar evolution. Despite several dedicated efforts to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Prasanta K. Nayak

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

We created the APOGEE-GALEX-\emph{Gaia} catalog to study white dwarfs binaries. This database aims to create a minimally biased sample of WD binary systems identified from a combination of GALEX, {\it Gaia}, and APOGEE data to increase the…

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

We construct from Gaia eDR3 an extensive catalog of spatially resolved binary stars within $\approx$ 1 kpc of the Sun, with projected separations ranging from a few au to 1 pc. We estimate the probability that each pair is a chance…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Kareem El-Badry , Hans-Walter Rix , Tyler M. Heintz

Close binary systems are the progenitors to both Type Ia supernovae and the compact object mergers that can be detected via gravitational waves. To achieve a binary with a small radial separation, it is believed that the system likely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-11 Steffani M. Grondin , Maria R. Drout , Jason Nordhaus , Philip S. Muirhead , Joshua S. Speagle , Ryan Chornock

Gaia DR3 mission has identified and provided about 440,000 binary systems with orbital solutions, offering a valuable resource for searching binaries including a compact component. By combining the Gaia DR3 data with radial velocities (RVs)…

Gaia DR3 provides >181, 000 radial velocity solutions for single-lined spectroscopic binaries (SB1s) which can be used to search for non-interacting compact object+star binary candidates by selecting systems with large mass functions. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 T. Jayasinghe , D. M. Rowan , Todd A. Thompson , C. S. Kochanek , K. Z. Stanek

We have created an up-to-date catalogue of 214 brown dwarfs (BDs) in binaries with $P < 10^4$ d. This allows us to examine the population statistics of the brown dwarf desert. We searched $\textit{Gaia}$ DR3 NSS results for orbital…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-05 Adam T. Stevenson , Carole A. Haswell , John R. Barnes , Joanna K. Barstow
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