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Several recent studies have shown that velocity differences of very wide binary stars, measured to high precision with GAIA, can potentially provide an interesting test for modified-gravity theories which attempt to emulate dark matter.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-06 Charalambos Pittordis , Will Sutherland

Recent studies have shown that velocity differences of very wide binary stars, measured to high precision with GAIA, can provide an interesting test for modified-gravity theories which emulate dark matter; in essence, MOND-like theories…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-12 Dhruv Manchanda , Will Sutherland , Charalambos Pittordis

Several recent studies have shown that very wide binary stars can potentially provide an interesting test for modified-gravity theories which attempt to emulate dark matter; these systems should be almost Newtonian according to standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Charalambos Pittordis , Will Sutherland

Wide-binary stars, separated by thousands of AU, reside in low-acceleration regimes where Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) predicts deviation from Newtonian gravity. However, Gaia radial velocities (RVs) lack the precision to resolve the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Serat Mahmud Saad , Yuan-Sen Ting

We test Milgromian dynamics (MOND) using wide binary stars (WBs) with separations of $2-30$ kAU. Locally, the WB orbital velocity in MOND should exceed the Newtonian prediction by $\approx 20\%$ at asymptotically large separations given the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Indranil Banik , Charalambos Pittordis , Will Sutherland , Benoit Famaey , Rodrigo Ibata , Steffen Mieske , Hongsheng Zhao

Wide binaries (WBs) offer a unique opportunity to test gravity in the low-acceleration regime, where modifications such as Milgromian dynamics (MOND) predict measurable deviations from Newtonian gravity. We construct a rigorous framework…

Recent studies of wide binary stars based on Gaia DR3 suggest that the relative orbital velocities of objects with separations s > 3'000 astronomical units are statistically larger than the standard Newtonian predictions. Obviously there is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-04 Andre Maeder , Frederic Courbin

Over the last couple of years, the appearance of the third data release from the {\it Gaia} satellite has triggered various wide binary low acceleration gravity tests. Wide binaries with typical total masses $\approx 1.0 - 1.6 M_{\odot}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-26 X. Hernandez , Kyu-Hyun Chae , A. Aguayo-Ortiz

Using the censored catalog of 103,169 resolved Gaia DR3 binary stars with accurate astrometric data for each component, a new observable, object-specific parameter is computed for each pair: the projected orbital momentum. This parameter is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Valeri V. Makarov

The standard LambdaCDM model based on General Relativity (GR) including cold dark matter (CDM) is very successful at fitting cosmological observations, but recent non-detections of candidate dark matter (DM) particles mean that various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-09 Charalambos Pittordis , Will Sutherland

The exploration of the low acceleration $a<a_{0}$ regime, where $a_{0}=1.2 \times 10^{-10}$m s$^{-2}$ is the acceleration scale of MOND around which gravitational anomalies at galactic scale appear, has recently been extended to the much…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-07 X. Hernandez , V. Verteletskyi , L. Nasser , A. Aguayo-Ortiz

The {\it Gaia} eDR3 catalogue has recently been used to study statistically the internal kinematics of wide binary populations using relative velocities of the two component stars, $\Delta V$, total binary masses, $m_{B}$, and separations,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 X. Hernandez

We set out to accurately measure gravity in the low-acceleration range $(10^{-11},10^{-9})$ m s$^{-2}$ from 3D motions of isolated wide binary stars. Gaia DR3 provides precise measurements of the four sky-plane components of the 3D relative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 K. -H. Chae , B. -C. Lee , X. Hernandez , V. G. Orlov , D. Lim , D. A. Turnshek , Y. -W. Lee

Context. Wide binaries offer a unique opportunity to test gravity in the low acceleration regime, where deviations from Newtonian dynamics may appear. Aims. We use high-resolution VLT-ESPRESSO archival spectra to study 26 wide binaries with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-05 L. Pasquini , R. Saglia , F. Patat , L. Berni , D. Bossini , L. Magrini , H. Ludwig , M. T. Murphy , J. R. de Medeiros , J. Chanamé

We consider the feasibility of testing Newtonian gravity at low accelerations using wide binary (WB) stars separated by $\ge 3$ kAU. These systems probe the accelerations at which galaxy rotation curves unexpectedly flatline, possibly due…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-07 Indranil Banik , Hongsheng Zhao

Wide Binaries (WBs) are interesting systems to test Newton-Einstein gravity in low potentials. The basic concept is to verify whether the difference in velocity between the WB components is compatible with what is expected from the Newton…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-09 R. Saglia , L. Pasquini , F. Patat , H. -G. Ludwig , R. Giribaldi , I. Leao , J. R. de Medeiros , Michael T. Murphy

The recent Gaia third data release (DR3) has brought some new exciting data about stellar binaries. It provides new opportunities to fully characterize more stellar systems and contribute to enforce our global knowledge of stars behaviour.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 S. Chevalier , C. Babusiaux , T. Merle , F. Arenou

Under Newtonian dynamics, the relative motion of the components of a binary star should follow a Keplerian scaling with separation. Once orientation effects and a distribution of ellipticities are accounted for, dynamical evolution can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-26 X. Hernandez , R. A. M. Cortés , C. Allen , R. Scarpa

We examine the distribution of on-sky relative velocities for wide binaries previously assembled from GAIA DR2 data and focus on the origin of the high velocity tail of apparently unbound systems which may be interpreted as evidence for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Cathie Clarke

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
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