no code implementations • 13 Jan 2021 • Kareem El-Badry, Hans-Walter Rix, Tyler M. Heintz
The underestimates are generally $\le 30\%$ for isolated sources with well-behaved astrometry, but are larger (up to 80%) for apparently well-behaved sources with a companion within $\lesssim 4$ arcsec, and much larger for sources with poor astrometric fits.
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies
1 code implementation • 16 Jul 2018 • Kareem El-Badry, Hans-Walter Rix
We construct from Gaia DR2 an extensive and very pure ($\lesssim 0. 2\%$ contamination) catalog of wide binaries containing main-sequence (MS) and white dwarf (WD) components within 200 pc of the Sun.
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies