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The Solar Neighborhood. LIII. M Dwarf Twin Binaries—One in Five Twin Sibling Pairs Are Mismatched in Activity and/or Rotation

  • Authors: Andrew A. Couperus, Todd J. Henry, Aman Kar, Wei-Chun Jao, Eliot Halley Vrijmoet, Rachel A. Osten

Andrew A. Couperus et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

Our CHIRON ﹩v\,\sin (i)﹩ values compared between twin pair components from our Results Sample, using the measurements from Table 3 and C25 and plotting error bars in all cases. Systems are ordered by descending ﹩v\,\sin (i)﹩ value, with vertical gray lines connecting the component stars, and a gray shaded region indicating less-reliable measures at <10 km s−1. The three systems with both stars above 10 km s−1 show broadly similar values between components, while the remaining majority of systems also typically show well-aligned values despite residing in the region of less-reliable measurements. The handful of exceptions are discussed in Section 6.2 and align with their observed component rotation periods.

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