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21,864 Unresolved, Low-mass Binaries Identified via Their Overluminosity in Gaia Data Release 3 and a Catalog of 347,440 Systems within 100 pc of the Sun

  • Authors: Zachary Way, Sébastien Lépine, Jonathan Gagné, Ilija Medan

Zachary Way et al 2026 The Astronomical Journal 171 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 12.

Overluminosity of the SB 2 binaries from M. Kounkel et al. (2021) shown against the amplitude fraction of the cross-correlation peaks. Our overluminosity cut is shown as a dashed line, and the equal-mass magnitude offset is a solid line. The fraction will be close to 1.0 when the best-fit template matches both stars in the measured spectrum, making it a likely equal-mass system. It can be seen that our overluminosity method performs well across the range of amplitude fractions.

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