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There should be about 10,000 stellar hierarchical systems within 100 pc with primary stars more massive than 0.5 Msun, and a similar amount of less massive hierarchies. A list of 8000 candidate multiples is derived from wide binaries found…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Andrei Tokovinin

In preparation for the release of the astrometric orbits of Gaia, Shahaf et al. (2019) proposed a triage technique to identify astrometric binaries with compact companions based on their astrometric semi-major axis, parallax, and primary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Sahar Shahaf , Dolev Bashi , Tsevi Mazeh , Simchon Faigler , Frédéric Arenou , Kareem El-Badry , Hans-Walter Rix

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

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

Most star clusters dissolve into the Galaxy over tens to hundreds of millions of years after they form. While recent Gaia studies have honed our view of cluster dispersal, the exact chronology of which star formation events begat which star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Andrew W. Boyle , Luke G. Bouma , Andrew W. Mann

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…

Data Release 3 (DR3) from the Gaia Mission includes radial velocity measurements of over 33 million targets. Among many scientific applications, the overlap of this stellar sample with targeted exoplanet transit survey stars presents an…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Quadry Chance , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Sarah Ballard , Andrew Casey , Trevor David , Adrian Price-Whelan

We present the results of a high-resolution imaging survey for brown dwarf binaries in the Pleiades open cluster. The observations were carried out with the Advance Camera for Surveys onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. Our sample consists…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Bouy , E. Moraux , J. Bouvier , W. Brandner , E. L. Martin , F. Allard , I. Baraffe , M. Fernandez

Aims: We provide a new distance estimate for the Pleiades based on the moving cluster method, which will be useful to further discuss the so-called Pleiades distance controversy and compare it with the very precise parallaxes from the Gaia…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 P. A. B. Galli , E. Moraux , H. Bouy , J. Bouvier , J. Olivares , R. Teixeira

We identify and roughly characterize 66 candidate binary star systems in the Pleiades, Praesepe, and NGC 2264 star clusters based on robotic adaptive optics imaging data obtained using Robo-AO at the Palomar 60" telescope. Only $\sim$10% of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Celia Zhang , Reed L. Riddle , Christoph Baranec , Carl Ziegler , Nicholas M. Law , John Stauffer

Since the release of the Hipparcos catalog in 1997, the distance to the Pleiades open cluster has been heavily debated. The distance obtained from Hipparcos and those by alternative methods differ by 10 to 15 %. As accurate stellar…

To address the statistics of binary stars in the 8-Myr old Upper Scorpius star formation region, we conducted speckle-interferometric survey of 614 association members more massive than 0.4 Msun (spectral types earlier than M3V) based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-11 Andrei Tokovinin , Cesar Briceno

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

In this study, we estimate the fraction of binaries with high mass ratios for 202 open clusters in the extended solar neighbourhood (closer than 1.5 kpc from the Sun). This is one of the largest homogeneous catalogues of multiplicity…

The occurrence of multiple stars, dominantly binaries, is studied using the \textit{Gaia}-ESA DR2 catalogue. We apply the optimized statistical method that we previously developed for the analysis of 2D patterns. The field of stars is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 Petr Zavada , Karel Píška

3350 objects from the Sixth catalog of orbits of visual binary stars (ORB6) are investigated to validate Gaia EDR3 parallaxes and provide mass estimates for the systems. We show that 2/3 of binaries with 0.2 - 0.5 arcsec separation are left…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Dmitry Chulkov , Oleg Malkov

In the Gaia era, a comprehensive analysis of the binary open clusters NGC 869 (h Persei) and NGC 884 (chi Persei) system has been conducted to investigate its structural, astrophysical, kinematic, and Galactic orbital properties, along with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-26 Seval Taşdemir , Waleed Elsanhoury , Deniz Cennet Çınar , Aly Haroon , Selçuk Bilir

Two hundred and forty-two members of the Praesepe and alpha Persei clusters ranging from B (~5Msun) to early-M (~0.5 Msun) have been surveyed with high angular resolution imaging. The 39 binary and 1 quadruple systems detected encompass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Patience , A. M. Ghez , I. N. Reid , K. Matthews

Context. Observations indicate that the fraction of potential binary star clusters in the Milky Way is either the same or lower than that of the Magellanic Clouds. The unprecedented precision in the parallax measurements by Gaia has allowed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Fangfang Song , Ali Esamdin , Qingshun Hu , Mengfan Zhang

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…