Gaia neutron stars: demographics, birth rates, and connections to other neutron star populations

arXiv:2610.00454 · astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Code: https://github.com/kareemelbadry/gaiamock

Project page: https://archives.esac.esa.int/Gaia

Terminology

• Core — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bayesian Inference — 6× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Metallicity — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Microlensing — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bayesian Framework — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Degeneracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium — 1× in this paper
• Large Magellanic Cloud — 1× in this paper
• Population Synthesis — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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• A global view of post-interaction white dwarf-main sequence binaries

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