Gaia Assorted Mass Binaries Long Excluded from SLoWPoKES (GAMBLES):
  Identifying Ultra-Wide Binary Pairs with Components of Diverse Mass
  The formation and evolution of binary star systems still remain key questions
in modern astronomy. Wide binary pairs (separations $>10^3$ AU) are
particularly intriguing because their low binding energies make it difficult
for the stars to stay gravitationally bound over extended timescales,and thus
probe the dynamics of binary formation and dissolution. Our previous SLoWPoKES
I \& II catalogs provided the largest and most complete sample of wide binary
pairs of low masses. Here we present an extension of these catalogs to a broad
range of stellar masses: the Gaia Assorted Mass Binaries Long Excluded from
SloWPoKES (GAMBLES), comprising 8,660 statistically significant wide pairs that
we make available in a living online database. Within this catalog we identify
a subset of 543 long-lived (dissipation timescale $>$1.5 Gyr) candidate binary
pairs, of assorted mass, with typical separations between $10^3-10^{5.5}$ AU
($0.002-1.5$ pc), using the published distances and proper motions from the
Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution and Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometry. Each
pair has at most a false positive probability of 0.05; the total expectation is
2.44 false binaries in our sample. Among these, we find 22 systems with 3
components, 1 system with 4 components, and 15 pairs consisting of at least 1
possible red giant. We find the largest long-lived binary separation to be
nearly 3.2 pc; even so, $>76\%$ of GAMBLES long-lived binaries have large
binding energies and dissipation lifetimes longer than 1.5 Gyr. Finally, we
find the distribution of binary separations is clearly bimodal, corroborating
the finding from SloWPoKES and suggesting multiple pathways for the formation
and dissipation of the widest binaries in the Galaxy.
