White Dwarfs Revealed in Gaia’s Candidate Compact Object Binaries

Discovery and characterization of black holes (BHs), neutron stars (NSs), and white dwarfs (WDs) with detached luminous companions (LCs) in wide orbits are exciting because they are important test beds for dark remnant (DR) formation physics as well as binary stellar evolution models. Recently, 187...

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Main Authors: Anindya Ganguly, Prasanta K. Nayak, Sourav Chatterjee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ace42f