Evidence for mass-dependent peculiar velocities in compact object binaries: towards better constraints on natal kicks

Y Zhao, P Gandhi, C Dashwood Brown… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We compile a catalogue of low-mass and high-mass X-ray binaries, some recently reported
binaries that likely host a neutron star (NS) or a black hole (BH), and binary pulsars (a pulsar …

Discovery of One Neutron Star Candidate from Radial-velocity Monitoring

H Yuan, S Wang, Z Bai, Y Wang, Y Dong… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of one possible neutron star binary (P orb= 0.8666 days) by using
LAMOST low-resolution spectroscopic data. The visible companion is a late A-type dwarf (T …

A seven-Earth-radius helium-burning star inside a 20.5-min detached binary

J Lin, C Wu, H Xiong, X Wang, P Németh, Z Han… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Binary evolution theory predicts that the second common envelope ejection can produce low-
mass (0.32–0.36 M⊙) subdwarf B (sdB) stars inside ultrashort-orbital-period binary systems …

A massive white dwarf or low-mass neutron star discovered by LAMOST

X Zhao, S Wang, P Wang, C Zheng… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of a close binary J0606+ 2132 (Gaia DR3 3423365496448406272)
with P obs= 2.77 days containing a possible massive white dwarf (WD) or a neutron star …

Wide binaries with white dwarf or neutron star companions discovered from Gaia DR3 and LAMOST

X Zhao, H Mu, S Wang, X Li, J Liu… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) mission has identified and provided about 440,000
binary systems with orbital solutions, offering a valuable resource for searching binaries …

The nearest neutron star candidate in a binary revealed by optical time-domain surveys

LL Zheng, M Sun, WM Gu, T Yi, ZX Zhang… - Science China Physics …, 2023 - Springer
The near-Earth (within∼ 100 pc) supernova explosions in the past several million years can
cause the global deposition of radioactive elements (eg, 60Fe) on Earth. The remnants of …

A population of neutron star candidates in wide orbits from Gaia astrometry

K El-Badry, HW Rix, DW Latham, S Shahaf… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We report discovery and spectroscopic follow-up of 21 astrometric binaries containing solar-
type stars and dark companions with masses near 1.4$ M_ {\odot} $. The simplest …

Searching for Compact Object Candidates from LAMOST Time-domain Survey of Four K2 Plates

S Qi, WM Gu, T Yi, ZX Zhang, S Wang… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The time-domain (TD) surveys of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic
Telescope (LAMOST) yield high-cadence radial velocities, paving a new avenue to study …

Double-lined Spectroscopic Binaries from the LAMOST Low-resolution Survey

J Liu, B Zhang, J Wu, YS Ting - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on a data-driven spectral model that we have developed for the identification of
double-lined spectroscopic binary stars (SB2s) in the Large Sky Area Multi-Object fiber …

A hidden population of massive white dwarfs: two spotted K+ WD binaries

DM Rowan, T Jayasinghe, MA Tucker… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The identification and characterization of massive (≳ 0.8 M⊙) white dwarfs is challenging in
part due to their low luminosity. Here, we present two candidate single-lined spectroscopic …