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Caption: Figure 5.
Examples of stars in our high-K sample, i.e., stars that likely have companions (see Section 5.1), with different numbers of visits. Left panels show the data (black markers, error bars are the visit velocity uncertainties) with 128 random orbits from the 256 posterior samples underplotted (lines, blue). The APOGEE_ID of each target and the number of visits that pass our quality cuts, N, are indicated on each panel. Right panels show the 256 posterior samples visualized in period–eccentricity space. In most cases, despite confidently having companions based on the RV amplitude, the permitted orbit fits are highly multimodal.
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