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We present a method to estimate distances to stars with spectroscopically derived stellar parameters. The technique is a Bayesian approach with likelihood estimated via comparison of measured parameters to a grid of stellar isochrones, and…

Samples of reliably identified halo wide binaries are scarce. If reasonably free from selection effects and with a small degree of contamination by chance alignments, these wide binaries become a powerful dynamical tool, having provided one…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-20 Johanna Coronado , María Paz Sepúlveda , Andrew Gould , Julio Chanamé

We present a $\approx 11.5$ year adaptive optics (AO) study of stellar variability and search for eclipsing binaries in the central $\sim 0.4$ pc ($\sim 10''$) of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster. We measure the photometry of 563 stars…

The recently-discovered lack of close binaries, among extreme horizontal branch (EHB) stars in Galactic globular clusters, has thus far constituted a major puzzle, in view of the fact that blue subdwarf stars - the field counterparts of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Moni Bidin , M. Catelan , M. Altmann

The complexity of composite spectra of close binary star system makes study of the spectra of their component stars extremely difficult. For this reason there exists very little information on the photospheric chemical composition of stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 K. Pavlovski , J. Southworth

We determine the fraction of G-dwarf stars that could host stable planetary systems based on the observed properties of binaries in the Galactic field, and in various postulated primordial binary populations, which assume that the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Richard J. Parker , Sascha P. Quanz

Context: Massive amounts of spectroscopic data obtained by stellar surveys are feeding an ongoing revolution in our knowledge of stellar and Galactic astrophysics. Analysing these data sets to extract the best possible astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 J. E. Martínez Fernández , S. Özdemir , R. Smiljanic , M. L. L. Dantas , A. R. da Silva

The cosmic variance on the star formation history may lead to bias to the merger rate density estimation of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers by the compact binary population synthesis. In this paper, we take the advantage of the large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-02 Zhiwei Chen , Youjun Lu , Jie Wang , Zhen Jiang , Qingbo Chu , Xianghao Ma

Populations of massive stars are directly reflective of the physics of stellar evolution. Counting subtypes of massive stars and ratios of massive stars in different evolutionary states have been used ubiquitously as diagnostics of age and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Trevor Z. Dorn-Wallenstein , Emily M. Levesque

We present results from the first hydrodynamical star formation calculation to demonstrate that close binary stellar systems (separations $\lsim 10$ AU) need not be formed directly by fragmentation. Instead, a high frequency of close…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Matthew R. Bate , Ian A. Bonnell , Volker Bromm

Eclipsing binaries are vital for directly determining stellar parameters without reliance on models or scaling relations. Spectroscopically derived parameters of detached and semi-detached binaries allow us to determine component masses…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Rachel A. Matson , Douglas R. Gies , Zhao Guo , Stephen J. Williams

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

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect ~ 100 galactic binary systems comprised of black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs). Identifying the nature of the constituents of these binaries as BHs or NSs, and distinguishing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-16 Hannah Middleton , Panagiota Kolitsidou , Antoine Klein , Connor Adam , Rowan Chalmers , Alberto Vecchio

In contrast to the field, the binaries in dense stellar systems are frequently not primordial, and could be either dynamically formed or significantly altered from their primordial states. Destruction and formation of binaries occur in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Natalia Ivanova

Aims: We aim to compute the binary fraction of "classical" dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) that are satellites of the Milky Way (MW). This value can offer insights into the binary fraction in environments that are less dense and more…

Context. This work is part of a long-term spectroscopic study of a sample of 30 multiple stars with early-type components. In this second paper we present the results of six multiple systems in which new stellar components have been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 M. E. Veramendi , J. F. González

Stars often reside in binary configurations. The nuclear star cluster surrounding the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the Galactic Center (GC) is expected to include a binary population. In this dense environment, a binary frequently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Sanaea C. Rose , Smadar Naoz , Abhimat K. Gautam , Andrea M. Ghez , Tuan Do , Devin Chu , Eric Becklin

A number of efforts are underway to detect close binary stars in planetary nebulae. The primary goal of these studies is to determine the binary fraction of central stars. The next stage is a detailed analysis of the binaries to determine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-08 Todd C. Hillwig

Context: Unresolved binaries in star clusters can bias stellar and cluster mass estimates, making their proper treatment essential for studying cluster dynamics and evolution. Aims: We aim to develop a fast and robust framework for jointly…

We combine a catalog of wide binaries constructed from Gaia DR2 with [Fe/H] abundances from wide-field spectroscopic surveys to quantify how the binary fraction varies with metallicity over separations $50 \lesssim s/{\rm AU} \lesssim…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Kareem El-Badry , Hans-Walter Rix