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Stellar Separation Shapes Spin–Orbit Alignment in Visual Binaries

  • Authors: Michael Poon, Dang Pham, Marta L. Bryan, Hanno Rein, Jiayin Dong

Michael Poon et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1002 .

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Posterior distributions of κ1, κ2, and f for the mixture model. For the κ posteriors, we also show the 1000 corresponding ψ distributions on the right panel. The mode and 68% HDPI are ﹩{\kappa }_{1}=2{6}_{-19}^{+179}﹩, ﹩{\kappa }_{2}={5}_{-3}^{+5}﹩, and ﹩f=0.6{6}_{-0.29}^{+0.21}﹩. This result indicates that there are two distinct stellar spin–orbit angle distributions.

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