Visual binary separations as functions of primary types, ages, and locations

Details Visual binary separations as functions of primary types, ages, and locations Visual binary separations as functions of primary types, ages, and locations

Mar 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988ap%26ss.142..111a&link_type=abstract

(IAU, Colloquium on Wide Components in Double and Multiple Stars, 97th, Brussels, Belgium, June 8-13, 1987) Astrophysics and Spa

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Binary Stars, Companion Stars, Open Clusters, Star Distribution, Stellar Systems, Visible Spectrum, Astronomical Catalogs, Dwarf Stars, Giant Stars, M Stars

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Samples of B1-B7, F3-G2, and KM dwarfs from the Bright Star Catalogue are studied in order to investigate visual binary separations. Although the frequency of detected companions is not found to vary significantly along the Main Sequence, the most frequent separations and the limiting separations are shown to vary markedly along the Main Sequence, with the limiting separations being 42,000 AU for B stars to 800 AU for M dwarfs. The results suggest that binaries in open clusters can have large separations, but that after they leave the cluster environments, chance encounters with field stars and molecular clouds will disrupt all but the more compact systems.

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