The Incidence of Multiplicity Among Bright Stellar Systems

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Aug 2007

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Binary Stars as Critical Tools & Tests in Contemporary Astrophysics, Proceedings of IAU Symposium #240, held 22-25 August, 2006

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We attempt to identify the multiplicities of the 4555 stellar systems that are brighter than Hipparcos magnitude 6.00. For multiplicity from one to seven, we find the following frequencies: 2723, 1411, 299, 86, 22, 12 and 2. That the higher multiplicities are significantly under-represented (except for multiplicity 7!) is illustrated by the fact that if we consider the smaller sample brighter than Hipparcos magnitude 4.00, we obtain: 213, 176, 52, 18, 9, 6, 0. We then construct a Monte-Carlo procedure that creates a population of multiples with multiplicity less than or equal to 8, giving them a plausible distribution over distance. In addition, we programme a `virtual observatory' that determines what observed multiplicities to expect from a given theoretical selection, subject to certain rather simple observational constraints. A crude first estimate is that to obtain something like the distribution listed above (for Hipparcos magnitude 6.00) we need a theoretical sample with about twice as many triples, and five times as many sextuples. We consider a number of evolutionary scenarios involving triples etc, including mergers that may mean that a system now perceived as binary may have formerly been triple.

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