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The dense cores of Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) play host to a variety of dynamical encounters between stellar objects, which can accelerate stars to velocities high enough to escape the GC. The most extreme examples of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-23 Fraser A. Evans , Steffani M. Grondin , Claire S. Ye , Jeremy Webb , Alexander Laroche , Jo Bovy

OB stars generally form in open clusters within the Milky Way's thin disk, so when they are found at high Galactic latitudes, it is thought that they were ejected from their birth clusters during the past few tens of millions of years.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-20 Brandon Schweers , M. Virginia McSwain

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…

Building on the recent release of a new \emph{Gaia}-based blue straggler star catalog in Galactic open star clusters (OCs), we explored the properties of these stars in a cluster sample spanning a wide range in fundamental parameters. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-26 M. J. Rain , M. S. Pera , G. Perren , O. Benvenuto , J. Panei , A. de Vito , G. Carraro , S. Villanova

Binary fraction and orbital characteristics provide indications on the conditions of star formation, as they shed light on the environment they were born in. Multiple systems are more common in low density environments rather than in higher…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 S. Lucatello , A. Sollima , R. Gratton , E. Vesperini , V. D'Orazi , E. Carretta , A. Bragaglia

In an attempt to determine how many planetary nebulae derive from binary interactions, we have started a project to measure their unbiased binary fraction. This number, when compared to the binary fraction of the presumed parent population…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Orsola De Marco , Jean-Claude Passy , D. J. Frew , Maxwell Moe , G. H. Jacoby

Although previous searches for star clusters have been very successful, many clusters are likely still omitted, especially at high Galactic latitude regions. In this work, based on the astrometry of Gaia EDR3, we searched nearby (parallax >…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-31 Zhihong He , Kun Wang , Yangping Luo , Jing Li , Xiaochen Liu , Qingquan Jiang

Many stars, including those in binary or multiple systems, exhibit modified rotational evolution due to tidal interactions. While magnetic braking slows rotation in single stars, close binaries experience synchronization from tidal forces,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 Ilay Kamai , Hagai B. Perets

Using the Bayesian Analysis of Stellar Evolution-9 (BASE-9) code and Gaia DR3, Pan-STARRS, and 2MASS data, we identify photometric binaries in 35 open clusters (OCs) and constrain their masses. We find a strong correlation between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-27 Anna C. Childs , Aaron M. Geller

We used extra-tidal RR Lyrae stars to study the dynamics of Galactic globular clusters and know how effects like dynamical friction and tidal disruption affect these clusters. The Gaia DR2 catalog for RR Lyrae stars (Clementini et al. 2018)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-19 Richa Kundu , Dante Minniti , Harinder P. Singh

We present a catalog of 99,203 wide binary systems, initially identified as common proper motion (CPM) pairs from a subset of ~5.2 million stars with proper motions $\mu > 40$ mas/year, selected from Gaia data release 2 (DR2) and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Zachary Hartman , Sébastien Lépine

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

The peripheral regions of globular clusters (GCs) are extremely challenging to study due to their low surface brightness nature and the dominance of Milky Way contaminant populations along their sightlines. We have developed a probabilistic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 Pete B. Kuzma , Annette M. N. Ferguson , Jorge Peñarrubia

Gaia mission offers opportunities to search for compact binaries not involved in binary interactions (hereafter inert compact binaries), and results in the discoveries of binaries containing one black hole (BH) or one neutron star (NS),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-20 Ataru Tanikawa , Long Wang , Michiko S. Fujii

Open clusters are among the most useful and widespread tracers of Galactic structure. The completeness of the Galactic open cluster census, however, remains poorly understood. For the first time ever, we establish the selection function of…

We present results constraining the multiplicity of the very low mass stars and sub-stellar objects in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC). Our sample covers primary masses 0.012-0.1M$_{\odot}$ using archival Hubble Space Telescope data obtained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Matthew De Furio , Michael R. Meyer , Megan Reiter , John Monnier , Adam Kraus , Trent Dupuy

Pixel-by-pixel colour-magnitude and colour-colour diagrams - based on a subset of the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys Early Release Observations - provide a powerful technique to explore and deduce the star and star…

In this paper we study the evolution of a primordial black hole binary (BHB) in a sample of over 1500 direct-summation $N-$body simulations of small-and intermediate-size isolated star clusters as proxies of galactic open clusters. The BHBs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-19 S. Rastello , P. Amaro-Seoane , M. Arca-Sedda , R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , G. Fragione , I. Tosta e Melo

We present the results of a binary population study in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) using archival Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) in Johnson V filter (HST Proposal 10246, PI M.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Matthew De Furio , Megan Reiter , Michael Meyer , Alexandra Greenbaum , Trent Dupuy , Adam Kraus

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