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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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Caption: Figure 3.

Top: posterior distribution of κ for the single population model. The mode and 68% HDPI is ﹩\kappa =1{1}_{-6}^{+10}﹩, corresponding to spin–orbit angle distributions peaking at ﹩\psi ={1{7}_{-5}^{+8}}^\circ ﹩. Bottom: 1000 spin–orbit angle distributions shown as blue curves, each corresponding to a sample from the κ posterior. In black is the ψ distribution for κ = 11, which peaks at 17°, signifying moderate spin–orbit alignment.

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