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A census of massive eclipsing binaries in the Whirlpool Galaxy
Cheyanne Shariat, Kareem El-Badry, Maude Gull +3
We present a census of massive eclipsing binary (EB) candidates in the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), a face-on spiral galaxy at 7.5 Mpc with . Using 34 epochs of red-optic…
Mass-dependent multiplicity fraction in low mass stars revealed by Gaia astrometry
Ben Pennell, Hans-Walter Rix, Kareem El-Badry +3
Stellar multiplicity at different orbital periods is probed by different techniques: radial velocities at the shortest periods, direct imaging at the longest, and astrometry in bet…
Black hole astrometric binaries in the Roman Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey
Casey Y. Lam, Jessica R. Lu, Kareem El-Badry +6
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman), NASA's next flagship mission, is currently scheduled to launch in August 2026. As part of its mission, Roman will conduct the Galacti…
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…
A Galactic intermediate-mass stripped star with a Wolf-Rayet-like wind
Johanna Müller-Horn, Kareem El-Badry, Andreas A. C. Sander +17
Binary interaction in massive stars is expected to produce a large population of intermediate-mass (- M) envelope-stripped stars, yet such objects have remained elusi…
The Twentieth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First All-Sky BOSS Spectra, eROSITA-SDSS-V Mapper Coordinated Observations, and a Preview of the Local Volume Mapper
SDSS Collaboration, Mojgan Aghakhanloo, David Aguilar +273
This paper presents the twentieth data release (DR20) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the third data release of its fifth generation (SDSS-V). SDSS-V is a panoptic spectroscopy…
Unveiling Massive Main-Sequence Stars in Sextans A through Panchromatic Photometry
Maude Gull, Daniel R. Weisz, Yumi Choi +9
We present a study of the metal-poor (~6% Z_sun) massive (>8 M_sun) main-sequence star population in the star-forming dwarf galaxy Sextans A. By modeling near-UV to near-IR photome…
Hide and Seek with Gaia. Detectability of Predicted Thin-Disc Metal-Rich RR Lyrae Binaries in Gaia DR3 and DR4
Giuliano Iorio, Pranav Nagarajan, Alexey Bobrick +8
RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) are classical tracers of old stellar populations, yet growing evidence suggests the presence of a metal-rich ([Fe/H]>-0.5), intermediate-age (2-7 Gyr) sub-pop…
A Quality Framework for Testing Gravity with Wide Binaries: No Evidence for MOND
Stephen A. Cookson, Indranil Banik, Kareem El-Badry +4
Wide binaries (WBs) offer a unique opportunity to test gravity in the low-acceleration regime, where modifications such as Milgromian dynamics (MOND) predict measurable deviations…
BE Lyncis is not a Black Hole Binary: Lessons From Gaia and Hipparcos Astrometry
Pranav Nagarajan, Kareem El-Badry, Thomas J. Maccarone +3
BE Lyncis (BE Lyn) is a well-studied high-amplitude Scuti variable star (HADS). Recently, Niu et al. (2026) analyzed a 39-year baseline of times of maximum light of BE Lyn, rep…