A catalogue of spectroscopic binary candidate stars derived from a comparison of Gaia DR2 with other radial velocity catalogues

Abstract

Using the recently published Gaia second data release which includes measurements of the mean radial velocity of about 7.2 million stars, we performed a systematic comparison with other existing radial velocity catalogues in order to search for variations in the radial velocity measurements, with the goal that detected differences may indicate that these stars are possibly spectroscopic binaries stars with only one visible component (SB1). We present a spectroscopic binary candidate stars catalogue containing 35,246 stars, compiled to encourage follow-up observations obtaining spectra at different epochs of these stars orbits in order to verify their binarity and to study these systems using radial velocity curves. Comparing the Gaia DR2 database with the K-M dwarf catalogue we found 16 stars that show radial velocity variations. In a comparison with the Pulkovo radial velocity catalogue of Hipparcos stars we identified a total of 539 SB1 candidate stars. In the largest radial velocity catalogue available, the RAVE catalogue, we found a total of 34,691 stars that show radial velocity variations when compared to the Gaia DR2 data.

arXiv comment12 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten

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