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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 5.

Four examples of the early large-scale dynamical behavior of a triple system relative to the cloud core. In three of these cases one body is ejected and a binary recoils. In one case (lower left) a bound triple system is formed, which drifts away, but it is unstable and eventually breaks up. The cloud core, with a Plummer density distribution and radius of 7500 AU, is indicated in grayscale. The width of each panel is 10,000 AU.

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