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Orbits and Masses of Binaries from Speckle Interferometry at SOAR

  • Authors: Rene A. Mendez, Rubén M. Clavería, and Edgardo Costa

2021 The Astronomical Journal 161 155.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 6.

Posterior distributions of the classical seven orbital elements, plus the (fitted) orbital parallax, together with the Gaia DR2 trigonometric parallax and its ±1σ error, the systemic velocity, the velocity amplitudes for both components, the mass sum, the mass ratio, and the individual component masses. The cut on the lower end of the VCoM histogram is a consequence of the fact that we discard solutions with mS/mP > 1. However, the method still provides a good estimate of the orbit and the distribution of orbital parameters.

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