Gaia's binary star renaissance

K El-Badry - New Astronomy Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Milky Way Star Clusters and Gaia: A Review of the Ongoing Revolution

T Cantat-Gaudin - Universe, 2022 - mdpi.com
The unprecedented quality of the astrometric measurements obtained with the ESA Gaia
spacecraft have initiated a revolution in Milky Way astronomy. Studies of star clusters in …

A million binaries from Gaia eDR3: sample selection and validation of Gaia parallax uncertainties

K El-Badry, HW Rix, TM Heintz - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We construct from Gaia eDR3 an extensive catalogue of spatially resolved binary stars
within≈ 1 kpc of the Sun, with projected separations ranging from a few au to 1 pc. We …

Strong constraints on the gravitational law from Gaia DR3 wide binaries

I Banik, C Pittordis, W Sutherland… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
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 …

BANYAN. XI. The BANYAN Σ multivariate Bayesian algorithm to identify members of young associations with 150 pc

J Gagné, EE Mamajek, L Malo, A Riedel… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
BANYAN Σ is a new Bayesian algorithm to identify members of young stellar associations
within 150 pc of the Sun. It includes 27 young associations with ages in the range∼ 1–800 …

The GALAH Survey: second data release

S Buder, M Asplund, L Duong, J Kos… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Galactic Archaeology with HERMES (GALAH) survey is a large-scale stellar
spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way, designed to deliver complementary chemical …

Gaia Early Data Release 3-The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars

RL Smart, LM Sarro, J Rybizki, C Reylé… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Aims. We produce a clean and well-characterised catalogue of objects within 100 pc of the
Sun from the Gaia Early Data Release 3. We characterise the catalogue through …

Imprints of white dwarf recoil in the separation distribution of Gaia wide binaries

K El-Badry, HW Rix - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We construct from Gaia DR2 an extensive and very pure (contamination) catalogue of wide
binaries containing main-sequence (MS) and white dwarf (WD) components within 200 pc of …

Stars with photometrically young Gaia luminosities around the solar system (SPYGLASS). I. Map** young stellar structures and their star formation histories

RMP Kerr, AC Rizzuto, AL Kraus… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Young stellar associations hold a star formation record that can persist for millions of years,
revealing the progression of star formation long after the dispersal of the natal cloud. To …

The eccentricity distribution of wide binaries and their individual measurements

HC Hwang, YS Ting… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Eccentricity of wide binaries is difficult to measure due to their long orbital periods. With
Gaia's high-precision astrometric measurements, eccentricity of a wide binary can be …