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Context. Understanding the formation and evolution of star clusters in the Milky Way requires precise identification of clusters that form binary or multiple systems. Such systems offer valuable insight into the dynamical processes and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-22 Tali Palma , Valeria Coenda , Gustavo Baume , Carlos Feinstein

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

A number of stellar open cluster (OC) pairs in the Milky Way occupy similar positions in the phase space (coordinates, parallax and proper motions) and therefore may constitute physically interacting systems. The characterization of such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-12 M. S. Angelo , J. F. C. Santos , F. F. S. Maia , W. J. B. Corradi

Open clusters (OCs) in our Galaxy can be found in pairs, possibly forming physical binaries, or in groups. These objects offer unique insights into the process of star formation and testify to the dynamical interactions at local and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Qingshun Hu , Yufei Cai , Caroline Soubiran , Yu Dai , Yuting Li , Yangping Luo , Mingfeng Qin

Using Gaia DR3 data, binary star catalogs have been created containing information on a total of more than 2.6 million pairs. This increases by more than an order of magnitude the ensemble of binary stars with known characteristics, which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-30 E. Malik , P. Kaigorodov , D. Kovaleva , O. Malkov

Gaia observations have revealed over a million stellar binary candidates within ~1 kpc of the Sun, predominantly characterized by orbital separations >10^3 AU and eccentricities >0.7. The prevalence of such wide, eccentric binaries has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-12 Dany Atallah , Yonadav Barry Ginat , Newlin C. Weatherford

A rare multiple open cluster system has been analyzed using Gaia DR3 astrometry and photometry data. Using Agglomerative Hierarchical clustering and Bayesian-HDBSCAN, we identify a compact core consisting of seven known open clusters and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Muhammad Akmal Husain , Ferdinand , Mochamad Ikbal Arifyanto , Muhammad Irfan Hakim

We investigate black hole-star binaries formed in $N$-body simulations of massive, dense star clusters. We simulate 32 clusters with varying initial masses ($10^{4}~\rm M_{\odot}$ to $10^{6}~\rm M_{\odot}$), densities ($1200~\rm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-21 Federico Fantoccoli , Jordan Barber , Fani Dosopoulou , Debatri Chattopadhyay , Fabio Antonini

Binary stars play a crucial role in our understanding of the formation and evolution of star clusters and their stellar populations. We use Gaia Data Release 3 to homogeneously analyze 78 Galactic open clusters and the unresolved binary…

The clustered nature of star formation should produce a high degree of structure in the combined phase and chemical space in the Galactic disk. To date, observed structure of this kind has been mostly limited to bound clusters and moving…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Harshil Kamdar , Charlie Conroy , Yuan-Sen Ting , Ana Bonaca , Benjamin Johnson , Phillip Cargile

It is challenging to reliably identify stars that were born together outside of actively star-forming regions and bound stellar systems. However, co-natal stars should be present throughout the Galaxy, and their demographics can shed light…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Harshil Kamdar , Charlie Conroy , Yuan-Sen Ting , Ana Bonaca , Martin Smith , Anthony G. A. Brown

Gaia BHs, black hole (BH) binaries discovered from database of an astrometric telescope Gaia, pose a question to the standard binary evolution model. We have assessed if Gaia BHs can be formed through dynamical capture in open clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-26 Ataru Tanikawa , Savannah Cary , Minori Shikauchi , Long Wang , Michiko S. Fujii

The recent discovery of two detached black hole-star (BH-star) binaries from Gaia's third data release has sparkled interest in understanding the formation mechanisms of these systems. We investigate the formation of these systems by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-26 Ugo Niccolò Di Carlo , Poojan Agrawal , Carl L. Rodriguez , Katelyn Breivik

Context: Tidal tails of open clusters are the result of stellar evaporation from the cluster through the Galactic potential and internal dynamics. With the recent availability of high-precision data, tidal tails are being detected for most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-30 Dhanraj Risbud , Vikrant V. Jadhav , Pavel Kroupa

Among the growing list of confirmed exoplanets, the number of planets identified in dense star clusters remains sparse. Previous analyses have suggested this may be due in part to dynamical interactions that unbind large fractions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 Kyle Kremer , Daniel J. D'Orazio , Johan Samsing , Sourav Chatterjee , Frederic A. Rasio

The galactic population of globular clusters are old, dense star systems, with a typical cluster containing $10^4 - 10^6$ stars. As an old population of stars, globular clusters contain many collapsed and degenerate objects. As a dense…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Matthew Benacquista

In the present study, we continue testing the Primordial Group hypothesis (Casado 2022), which postulates that only sufficiently young open clusters can be binary or multiple, and old clusters are essentially single. To this end, we revisit…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-04 Juan Casado

Context: this paper describes the detection of wide binary and multiple central stars (CSs) of Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) using the most up-to-date data available from the Gaia Data Release 3 (Gaia DR3). Aims: the objective of this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 A. Ali , J. M. Khalil , A. Mindil

In this work, we investigate the dynamical properties of 38 Galactic open clusters: 34 of them are located at low Galactic latitudes (|b| < 10$^{\circ}$) and are projected against dense stellar fields; the other 4 comparison objects present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 M. S. Angelo , W. J. B. Corradi , J. F. C. Santos , F. F. S. Maia , F. A. Ferreira

We summarize the results of recent theoretical work on the dynamical evolution of globular clusters containing primordial binaries. Even a very small initial binary fraction (e.g., 10%) can play a key role in supporting a cluster against…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Frederic A. Rasio , John M. Fregeau , Kriten J. Joshi
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