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The identification of binary stars of different mass ratios in resolved stellar populations is a challenging task. We show how the photometric diagram constructed with the pseudo-colors (H-W2)-W1 vs W2-(BP-K) can be employed to estimate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 A. Malofeeva , A. Seleznev , G. Carraro

In this study, we continue our project to search for unresolved binary and multiple systems in open clusters exploiting the photometric diagram (H-W2)-W1 vs W2-(BP-K) firstly introduced in \citet{Malofeeva+2022}. In particular, here we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 Alina A. Malofeeva , Varvara O. Mikhnevich , Giovanni Carraro , Anton F. Seleznev

Since its launch in 2013, the Gaia space telescope has provided precise measurements of the positions and magnitudes of over 1 billion stars. This has enabled extensive searches for stellar and sub-stellar companions through astrometric and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-11 A. L. Wallace

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…

The binary fractions of open and globular clusters yield powerful constraints on their dynamical state and evolutionary history. We apply publicly available Bayesian analysis code to a $UBVRIJHK_{S}$ photometric catalog of the old open…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Roger E. Cohen , Aaron M. Geller , Ted von Hippel

A technique is described for the detection and measurement of close binary systems whose images are unresolved. The method is based on analysis of the moment of inertia tensor of the image, from which the product of the binary flux ratio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Paul Hickson

Accurate determination of binary fractions ($f_{\rm b}$) and mass ratio ($q$) distributions is crucial for understanding the dynamical evolution of open clusters. We present an improved multiband fitting technique to enhance the analysis of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-06 Rongrong Liu , Zhengyi Shao , Lu Li

The masses of stars and planets can be measured dynamically in binary systems. For an unresolved binary, time series astrometry yields some orbital parameters, but it cannot provide the component masses, because we observe only the motion…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , L. Kreidberg

We examine the capacity to identify binary systems from astrometric deviations alone. We apply our analysis to the Gaia eDR3 and DR2 data, specifically the Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars. We show we must renormalize (R)UWE over the local…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Zephyr Penoyre , Vasily Belokurov , N. Wyn Evans

The binary properties of open clusters place crucial constraints on star formation theory and clusters' dynamical evolution. We develop a comprehensive approach that models the color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of the cluster members as the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Lu Li , Zhengyi Shao , Zhao-Zhou Li , Jincheng Yu , Jing Zhong , Li Chen

The fraction of binary stars is an important ingredient to interpret globular cluster dynamical evolution and their stellar population. We investigate the properties of main-sequence binaries measured in a uniform photometric sample of 59…

We need to resolve the individual stars for binary fraction determinations of stellar systems. Therefore, it is not possible to obtain the binary fractions for dense or distant stellar systems. % We proposed a method to determine the binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 F. Zhang , L. Li , Z. Han , X. Wang

Binarity plays a crucial role in star formation and evolution. Consequently, identifying binary stars is essential to deepen our understanding of these processes. We propose a method to investigate the observed radial velocity distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-18 Stefano Rinaldi , María Claudia Ramírez-Tannus

The HST/ACS Survey of Galactic globular clusters (GGCs) is a HST Treasury project aimed at obtaining high precision photometry in a large sample of globular clusters. The homogeneous photometric catalogs that has been obtained from these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-22 A. P. Milone , G. Piotto , L. R. Bedin , A. Sarajedini

One of the nearest and best studied open clusters, Pleiades is an important cornerstone of stellar astrophysics. Despite its role as reference coeval stellar population, its multiplicity properties remain vaguely determined. The combined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Dmitry Chulkov

We present a robust methodology for identifying photometric binaries in star clusters. Using Gaia DR3, Pan-STARRS and 2MASS data, we self-consistently define the cluster parameters and binary demographics for the open clusters (OCs) NGC…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Anna C. Childs , Aaron M. Geller , Ted von Hippel , Erin Motherway , Claire Zwicker

This thesis focuses on the statistical properties of wide binary (WB) star systems in the Galactic field. For the present study we select a homogeneous sample covering about 675 square degrees in the direction of the NGP. It contains nearly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-03 Marco Longhitano

Identifying and removing binary stars from stellar samples is a crucial but complicated task. Regardless of how carefully a sample is selected, some binaries will remain and complicate interpretation of results, especially via flux…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-08 Kendall Sullivan , Adam L. Kraus , Travis A. Berger , Daniel Huber

Over the past decade, the number of known wide binary systems has exponentially expanded thanks to the release of data from the Gaia Mission. Some of these wide binary systems are actually higher-order multiples, where one of the components…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Zachary Hartman , Sébastien Lépine , Ilija Medan

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…

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