Journal
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 155, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/1538-3881/aaaebe
Keywords
binaries: general; catalogs; stars: fundamental parameters
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- Rider University's summer research grant
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Science Foundation
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We have estimated fundamental parameters for a sample of co-moving stars observed by Gaia and identified by Oh et al. We matched the Gaia observations to the 2MASS and Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer catalogs and fit MIST isochrones to the data, deriving estimates of the mass, radius, [Fe/H], age, distance, and extinction to 9754 stars in the original sample of 10606 stars. We verify these estimates by comparing our new results to previous analyses of nearby stars, examining fiducial cluster properties, and estimating the power-law slope of the local present-day mass function. A comparison to previous studies suggests that our mass estimates are robust, while metallicity and age estimates are increasingly uncertain. We use our calculated masses to examine the properties of binaries in the sample and show that separation of the pairs dominates the observed binding energies and expected lifetimes.
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