Stellar multiplicity

G Duchêne, A Kraus - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Stellar multiplicity is a ubiquitous outcome of the star-formation process. The frequency and
main characteristics of multiple systems, and their dependence on primary mass and …

[HTML][HTML] Binary stars in the new millennium

X Chen, Z Liu, Z Han - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
Binary stars are as common as single stars. Binary stars are of immense importance to
astrophysicists because that they allow us to determine the masses of the stars independent …

Mind your Ps and Qs: the interrelation between period (P) and mass-ratio (Q) distributions of binary stars

M Moe, R Di Stefano - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We compile observations of early-type binaries identified via spectroscopy, eclipses, long-
baseline interferometry, adaptive optics, common proper motion, etc. Each observational …

Merging black holes in young star clusters

UN Di Carlo, N Giacobbo, M Mapelli… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Searching for distinctive signatures, which characterize different formation channels of
binary black holes (BBHs), is a crucial step towards the interpretation of current and future …

Stellar, brown dwarf and multiple star properties from a radiation hydrodynamical simulation of star cluster formation

MR Bate - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We report the statistical properties of stars, brown dwarfs and multiple systems obtained from
the largest radiation hydrodynamical simulation of star cluster formation to date that resolves …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] The binarity of the local white dwarf population

S Toonen, M Hollands, BT Gänsicke… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Context. As endpoints of stellar evolution, white dwarfs (WDs) are powerful tools to study the
evolutionary history of the Galaxy. In particular, the multiplicity of WDs contains information …

Discovery of an equal-mass 'twin'binary population reaching 1000+ au separations

K El-Badry, HW Rix, H Tian… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We use a homogeneous catalogue of 42 000 main-sequence wide binaries identified by
Gaia to measure the mass ratio distribution, p (q), of binaries with primary masses 0.1< M …

How accretion of planet-forming disks influences stellar abundances

LA Hühn, B Bitsch - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 - aanda.org
Millimeter-sized dust grains experience radial velocities exceeding the gas velocities by
orders of magnitude. The viscous evolution of the accretion disk adds disk material onto the …