Close Binary Companions to APOGEE DR16 Stars: 20,000 Binary-star Systems Across the Color-Magnitude Diagram

Price-Whelan, Adrian M.; Hogg, David W.; Rix, Hans-Walter; Beaton, Rachael L.; Lewis, Hannah M.; Nidever, David L.; Almeida, Andrs; Badenes, Carles; Barba, Rodolfo; Beers, Timothy C.; Carlberg, Joleen K.; De Lee, Nathan; Fernandez-Trincado, Jose G.; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Garcia-Hernandez, D. A.; et. al.

Abstract

Many problems in contemporary astrophysics-from understanding the formation of black holes to untangling the chemical evolution of galaxies-rely on knowledge about binary stars. This, in turn, depends on the discovery and characterization of binary companions for large numbers of different kinds of stars in different chemical and dynamical environments. Current stellar spectroscopic surveys observe hundreds of thousands to millions of stars with (typically) few observational epochs, which allows for binary discovery but makes orbital characterization challenging. We use a custom Monte Carlo sampler (The Joker) to perform discovery and characterization of binary systems through radial velocities, in the regime of sparse, noisy, and poorly sampled multi-epoch data. We use it to generate posterior samplings in Keplerian parameters for 232,495 sources released in APOGEE Data Release 16. Our final catalog contains 19,635 high-confidence close-binary (P less than or similar to few years, a less than or similar to few

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Título según WOS: Close Binary Companions to APOGEE DR16 Stars: 20,000 Binary-star Systems Across the Color-Magnitude Diagram
Título de la Revista: ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volumen: 895
Número: 1
Editorial: IOP PUBLISHING LTD
Fecha de publicación: 2020
DOI:

10.3847/1538-4357/AB8ACC

Notas: ISI