Chirag Chawla

Gaia’s Promise to Detect Compact-object Binaries: Where We Stand with the Third Data Release

Abstract With its third data release (DR3), Gaia begins unveiling dormant candidate compact object (CO) binaries with luminous companions (LC) as predicted by several past theoretical studies. To date, three black hole (BH), 21 neutron star (NS), and ≈3200 white dwarf (WD) candid...