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With the inception of gravitational wave astronomy, astrophysical studies using interferometric techniques have begun to probe previously unknown parts of the universe. In this work, we investigate the potential of a new interferometric…

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Stellar multiplicity is among the oldest and richest problems in astrophysics. Binary stars are a cornerstone of stellar mass and radius measurements that underpin modern stellar evolutionary models. Binaries are the progenitors of many of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-15 Kareem El-Badry

We present a rigorous identification of candidates for dormant black holes (BHs) and neutron stars (NSs) in binaries using summary statistics from Gaia DR3, rather than full orbital solutions. Although Gaia astrometric orbits have already…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Johanna Müller-Horn , Hans-Walter Rix , Kareem El-Badry , Ben Pennell , Matthew Green , Jiadong Li , Rhys Seeburger

Astrometric discovery of sub-stellar mass companions orbiting stars is exceedingly hard due to the required sub-milliarcsecond precision, limiting the application of this technique to only a few instruments on a target-per-target basis as…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 B. Holl , A. Sozzetti , J. Sahlmann , P. Giacobbe , D. Ségransan , N. Unger , J. B. Delisle , D. Barbato , M. G. Lattanzi , R. Morbidelli , D. Sosnowska

Binary star systems are expected to follow Newtonian dynamics similarly to planetary systems. However, reports have been made of wide binary systems with separations around 0.01 pc and larger, showing potential deviations from standard…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-27 Stephen Cookson

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 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…

The orbits of binary stars and planets, particularly eccentricities and inclinations, encode the angular momentum within these systems. Within stellar multiple systems, the magnitude and (mis)alignment of angular momentum vectors among…

Context. Binary asteroids are present in all populations of the Solar System, from near-Earth to trans-Neptunian regions. As is true for the small Solar System bodies (SSSBs), binary asteroids generally offer valuable insights into the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-18 Ziyu Liu , Daniel Hestroffer , Josselin Desmars , Pedro David

We report the discovery of a candidate binary system consisting of a black hole (BH) and a red giant branch star from the Gaia DR3. This binary system is discovered from 64108 binary solutions for which both astrometric and spectroscopic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Ataru Tanikawa , Kohei Hattori , Norita Kawanaka , Tomoya Kinugawa , Minori Shikauchi , Daichi Tsuna

We present spectroscopic followup observations of binary systems from the Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) binary catalog that were selected to have large enough mass functions for their companions to be black holes or neutron stars. The selection…

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

Wide binary stars are important for testing alternative models of gravitation in the weak-field regime and understanding the statistical outcomes of dynamical interactions in the general Galactic field. The Gaia mission's collection of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-28 Valeri V. Makarov

Gaia Data Release 3 contains accurate photometric observations of more than 150,000 asteroids covering a time interval of 34 months. With a total of about 3,000,000 measurements, a typical number of observations per asteroid ranges from a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Josef Durech , Josef Hanus

Orbital motion in binary and planetary systems is the main source of precise stellar and planetary mass measurements, and joint analysis of data from multiple observational methods can both lift degeneracies and improve precision. We set…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 A. Leclerc , C. Babusiaux , F. Arenou , F. van Leeuwen , M. Bonnefoy , X. Delfosse , T. Forveille , J. -B. Le Bouquin , L. Rodet

Satellites of asteroids have been discovered in nearly every known small body population, and a remarkable aspect of the known satellites is the diversity of their properties. They tell a story of vast differences in formation and evolution…

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Multiple stellar systems are ubiquitous in the Milky Way, but are often unresolved and seen as single objects in spectroscopic, photometric, and astrometric surveys. Yet, modeling them is essential for developing a full understanding of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Axel Widmark , Boris Leistedt , David W. Hogg

The amount of sparse asteroid photometry being gathered by both space- and ground-based surveys is growing exponentially. This large volume of data poses a computational challenge owing to both the large amount of information to be…

Over the course of several years, stars trace helical trajectories as they traverse across the sky due to the combined effects of proper motion and parallax. It is well known that the gravitational pull of an unseen companion can cause…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Jeff J. Andrews , Katelyn Breivik , Chirag Chawla , Carl Rodriguez , Sourav Chatterjee

Orbital inclination is crucial in determining the mass of the binary. The astrometric excess noise contain the orbital motion information, which can be used to constrain the inclination. We aim to constrain the orbital inclination of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Shilong Liao , Ye Ding , Shangyu Wen , Zhaoxiang Qi , Qiqi Wu