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Gaia neutron stars: demographics, birth rates, and connections to other neutron star populations
Cheyanne Shariat, Natsuko Yamaguchi, Kareem El-Badry +1
Gaia DR3 revealed a new class of neutron stars (NSs) in au-scale orbits with solar-type companions. How these 'Gaia NSs' form remains unclear, and constraining their intrinsic popu…
Beyond what's observed: hierarchical inference of Gaia astrometric compact-object binaries
Natsuko Yamaguchi, Kareem El-Badry, Reed Essick +3
Astrometry from the Gaia mission has revealed a large and homogeneous population of binaries containing compact objects, including more than 3000 white dwarf--main sequence (WDMS)…
Spectroscopic follow-up of compact object binary candidates from Gaia DR3: White dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes, and the parallax zeropoint
Kareem El-Badry, David W. Latham, Hans-Walter Rix +12
Astrometry and radial velocities (RVs) from Gaia DR3 yielded orbits for hundreds of thousands of binary systems, including several samples proposed to contain black holes (BHs), ne…
Population demographics of post-interaction WDMS binaries: From common envelope evolution to stable mass transfer
Natsuko Yamaguchi, Kareem El-Badry, Cheyanne Shariat
Close white dwarf (WD) + main-sequence (MS) binaries are end products of mass transfer (MT) that occurred prior to WD formation, making their population demographics a powerful pro…
A systematic survey for hypervelocity runaways from thermonuclear supernovae
Kareem El-Badry, Klaus Werner, Ken J. Shen +16
The explosion of a white dwarf (WD) in a close binary can launch a surviving runaway star at velocities of . Such runaways provide a direct probe of…
Ongoing and Post-Mass-Transfer Binaries: A Living Catalog and Unified Review of Binary Mass Transfer Products
Lieke A. C. van Son, Natsuko Yamaguchi, Pranav Nagarajan +6
Mass transfer is arguably the most defining interaction in binary stellar systems, yet many aspects of its physics remain poorly understood, from stability to endpoints and observa…
Thermally inflated accretors in post-mass transfer binaries: Abell 35 and its class revisited
Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee, Kareem El-Badry, Jim Fuller +2
A small but growing class of binaries containing hot () white dwarfs (WDs) and rapidly rotating, apparently subgiant companions -- including the proto…
Chemical Signatures of AGB Mass Transfer in Gaia White Dwarf Companions
Natsuko Yamaguchi, Kareem El-Badry, Henrique Reggiani +2
We present a homogeneous abundance analysis of 160 main-sequence stars in astrometric white-dwarf + main-sequence (WD+MS) binaries with orbits from Gaia DR3. These systems have AU-…
Carbon burning cannot explain puffy hypervelocity white dwarfs
Natsuko Yamaguchi, Kareem El-Badry, Tin Long Sunny Wong +1
Several hypervelocity white dwarfs (HVWDs) with space velocities of have recently been discovered. One possible origin of these stars is the dynam…
Population demographics of white dwarf binaries with intermediate separations: Gaia constraints on post-AGB mass transfer
Natsuko Yamaguchi, Kareem El-Badry, Sahar Shahaf
Astrometry from the Gaia mission has revealed a large population of white dwarf (WD) + main sequence (MS) binaries with periods of d. These systems have separations i…
Unevolved Li-rich stars at low metallicity: a possible formation pathway through novae
Tadafumi Matsuno, Alex Kemp, Ataru Tanikawa +7
A small fraction of low-mass stars have been found to have anomalously high Li abundances. Although it has been suggested that mixing during the red giant branch phase can lead to…
A search for self-lensing binaries with TESS and constraints on their occurrence rate
Natsuko Yamaguchi, Kareem El-Badry, Nicholas M. Sorabella
Five self-lensing binaries (SLBs) have been discovered with Kepler light curves. They contain white dwarfs (WDs) in AU-scale orbits that gravitationally lens solar-type companions.…
The companion mass distribution of post common envelope hot subdwarf binaries: evidence for boosted and disrupted magnetic braking?
Lisa Blomberg, Kareem El-Badry, Katelyn Breivik +6
We measure the mass distribution of main-sequence (MS) companions to hot subdwarf B stars (sdBs) in post-common envelope binaries (PCEBs). We carried out a spectroscopic survey of…
Wide post-common envelope binaries from Gaia: orbit validation and formation models
Natsuko Yamaguchi, Kareem El-Badry, Natalie Rees +3
Astrometry from {\it Gaia} DR3 has enabled the discovery of a sample of 3000+ binaries containing white dwarfs (WD) and main-sequence (MS) stars in relatively wide orbits, with orb…
No longer impossible: the self-lensing binary KIC 8145411 is a triple
Natsuko Yamaguchi, Kareem El-Badry, David R. Ciardi +5
Five self-lensing binaries (SLBs) have been discovered with data from the \textit{Kepler} mission. One of these systems is KIC 8145411, which was reported to host an extremely low…
A population of neutron star candidates in wide orbits from Gaia astrometry
Kareem El-Badry, Hans-Walter Rix, David W. Latham +10
We report discovery and spectroscopic follow-up of 21 astrometric binaries containing solar-type stars and dark companions with masses near 1.4 . The simplest interpreta…
Wide post-common envelope binaries containing ultramassive white dwarfs: evidence for efficient envelope ejection in massive AGB stars
Natsuko Yamaguchi, Kareem El-Badry, Jim Fuller +7
Post-common-envelope binaries (PCEBs) containing a white dwarf (WD) and a main-sequence (MS) star can constrain the physics of common envelope evolution and calibrate binary evolut…
The fastest stars in the Galaxy
Kareem El-Badry, Ken J. Shen, Vedant Chandra +18
We report a spectroscopic search for hypervelocity white dwarfs (WDs) that are runaways from Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and related thermonuclear explosions. Candidates are select…
Sodium enhancement in evolved cataclysmic variables
Natsuko Yamaguchi, Kareem El-Badry, Antonio C. Rodriguez +3
We present follow-up spectroscopy of 21 cataclysmic variables (CVs) with evolved secondaries and ongoing or recently-terminated mass transfer. Evolutionary models predict that the…