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Caption: Figure 29.
Total numbers of triple systems in which all three components are BDs are plotted as a function of projected separation in intervals of 2000 AU of the outer body relative to the center of mass of the inner binary. Bound triple systems are either stable (red) or unstable (green), and already disrupted systems are blue. The black dotted line indicates the sum of all three categories as function of projected separation. A total of 15,376 BD triple systems are plotted (including systems that fall outside the 50,000 AU limit of the plot). The three panels show the projected separations at ages of 1, 10, and 100 Myr, respectively.
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