Laplace opens a star map
Laplace puts ESA's Gaia DR3 catalogue on a star map you can move around in, with the candidate companions it found marked on the sky.
A search of 1.8 billion stars
Gaia DR3 holds measurements of 1.8 billion sources. Laplace searched the catalogue for hidden companions and found 220,656 candidate binary and multiple star systems.
They are candidates, not confirmations. Each one is a lead for astronomers to follow up.
On the map
The star map shows the Gaia data and the candidates where they sit on the sky. A researcher can move around, find a region and see what the search turned up there, instead of reading a table of coordinates.
The same engine, another sky
Laplace is one of Northflow's operational research systems. It runs on the same evidence engine that logs CERES forecasts and was evaluated on quantum hardware, which is how one method reaches from famine risk to the stars.
