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 …

Rethinking Thorne–Żytkow Object Formation: Assembly via Common Envelope in Field Binaries

RW Everson, T Hutchinson-Smith… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Thorne–Żytkow objects (TŻOs), hypothetical merger products in which a neutron star is
embedded in a stellar core, are traditionally considered steady-state configurations. Their …

The physics of Core-Collapse Supernovae: Explosion mechanism and explosive nucleosynthesis

L Boccioli, L Roberti - Universe, 2024 - mdpi.com
Recent developments in multi-dimensional simulations of core-collapse supernovae have
considerably improved our understanding of this complex phenomenon. In addition to that …

Unveiling subarcsecond multiplicity in the Pleiades with Gaia multicolor photometry

D Chulkov - The Astronomical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The list of 409 probable cluster members down to G= 15 mag (m≳ 0.5M⊙) is compiled for
the two degree radius of the Pleiades, based on astrometric data from Gaia DR3 and the …

Close binary fractions in accreted and in situ halo stars

D Bashi, V Belokurov, S Hodgkin - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The study of binary stars in the Galactic halo provides crucial insights into the dynamical
history and formation processes of the Milky Way. In this work, we aim to investigate the …

Tianyu: search for the second solar system and explore the dynamic universe

F Feng, Y Rui, Z Du, Q Lin, C Zhang, D Zhou… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn, play important roles in the formation and habitability of
Earth-like planets. The detection of solar system analogs that have multiple cold giant …

Detection of ubiquitous circumbinary matter in hot subdwarfs formed from common-envelope ejections

J Li, C Wolf, J Li, Y Luo, J Zhao, B Chen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
The formation of compact binary systems is largely driven by their evolution through a
common envelope (CE) phase, crucial for understanding phenomena such as type Ia …

Anatomy of a Fall: Stationary and super-Keplerian spiral arms generated by accretion streamers in protostellar discs

J Calcino, DJ Price, T Hilder… - Monthly Notices of …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Late-stage infall onto evolved protoplanetary discs is an important source of material and
angular momentum replenishment, and disc substructures. In this paper we used 3D …

Formation of millisecond pulsars with wide orbits

B Wang, D Liu, Y Guo, H Chen, W Tang… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a kind of radio pulsars with short spin periods, playing a key
role in many aspects of stellar astrophysics. In recent years, some more MSPs with wide …

The radius variations of accreting main-sequence stars and mass transfer instability

ZQ Zhao, ZW Li, L Xiao, HW Ge… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Many previous works studied the dynamical time-scale mass transfer stability criteria based
on the donor response with neglecting the stellar structure of the accretor. In this letter, we …