smoh / gaia-comoving-stars

Finding wide binaries from the ESA Gaia mission

Co-moving stars in Gaia DR1

This repository contains code used for finding co-moving pairs of stars using the TGAS catalog. The paper is posted on arxiv.

An interactive web visualization is available here.

Link to the catalog in CSV format:

• star table
• pair table
• group table

Data

You can download the stacked Tycho-Gaia data as a FITS file from this URL or by doing:

wget http://s3.adrian.pw/stacked_tgas.fits

License

Copyright 2016 the Authors. Licensed under the terms of the MIT License.