Table · dataset · 2026
RVs and activity indices of 8 stars
Listed in IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory)
The astrometric measurements provided by the Gaia space mission represent a key advancement in the search and characterization of exoplanets, helping in particular to solve the mass degeneracy intrinsic to the radial velocity (RV) method.
Description
The fact that a fraction of astrophysical false positives contaminates the current catalog of astrometric candidate solutions requires an RV follow-up to validate and confirm such candidates.
Within the GAPS programme, we have observed a selected sample of 14 stars having Gaia astrometric solutions compatible with the presence of a substellar companion. The immediate aim of this survey is to identify astrophysical false positives and provide the first RV validation and confirmation of the remaining candidates. We analysed data collected with the HARPS-N spectrograph to identify stellar binary systems from the spectral cross-correlation function profiles.
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The remaining astrometric candidates were characterized via Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis searching for the best-fit RV solution. Among the stars in our sample with astrometric candidate solutions, we identify 6 as originating from close binary companions mimicking the astrometric motion of distant substellar companions, from which we can estimate an updated value of 43_-11_^+13^% for the binary contamination fraction in the Gaia DR3 catalog of astrometric candidates.
We validate and confirm the remaining 8 solutions, corresponding to giant and brown dwarf companions with minimum masses between 8 and 62M_Jup_ and semimajor axes between 0.76 and 1.42 au, providing the first RV characterization for 6 of these candidates and updated orbital solutions for 2 previously confirmed ones
Links
Where it is published
- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/712/A213 ↗
landing page · from IVOA Registry
Documentation and papers
- ADS 2026A&A...712A.213B ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026A%26A...712A.213B ↗
publication · from IVOA Registry
Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
metadata API · from IVOA Registry
- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/cds.vizier/j/a%2Ba/712/a213 ↗
catalogue entry · from IVOA Registry
Topics
- Stated by source
- Optical
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://cds.vizier/j/a+a/712/a213 | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].ivoa_waveband:optical | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_description |
| license_text | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_title |
| updated_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 |