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Undetected Binary Stars Cause an Observed Mass-dependent Age Gradient in Upper Scorpius

  • Authors: Kendall Sullivan and Adam L. Kraus

2021 The Astrophysical Journal 912 137.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 9.

Top to bottom: Single stars, single stars with extinction, binary stars with exact-distance analysis, and binary stars with inexact-distance analysis. Primary-star mass and age histograms for the input systems (black solid line) and output fits (red dotted line). The mass and age distributions change as a result of the presence of undetected binaries: the changes in the mass distribution are small, but the median age is pulled younger and the morphology of the distribution changes.

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