The quick and the dead: finding the surviving binary companions of galactic supernovae with Gaia
We use Gaia Data Release 2 to search for possible surviving binary companions to three of the best-studied historical Milky Way core-collapse supernovae. Consistent with previous work, we find there to be no plausible binary companion to either the Crab or Cas A supernovae. For the first time, we pr...
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American Astronomical Society
2019
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