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BROWN DWARF BINARIES FROM DISINTEGRATING TRIPLE SYSTEMS

  • Authors: Bo Reipurth and Seppo Mikkola

2015 The Astronomical Journal 149 145.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 16.

Semi-major axis distribution of the outer components in triple systems consisting of three brown dwarfs at 1 Myr. The third body can be ejected to very large distances and yet be kept loosely tethered to the binary. At 100 Myr, after almost all of the unstable triples have disintegrated, the distribution is approximately constant in this log-diagram from ∼300 AU to several pc, which is Öpik's Law, implying that the distribution is approximately ﹩f(a)\sim 1/a﹩ for wide BD binaries.

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