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Caption: Figure 5.
Rotation period distributions in the Eunomia (a), Hungaria (b), and Vesta (c) families. Periods are from B. D. Warner et al. (2021) and Gaia DR3 photometry. Data with quality code U ﹩\lt ﹩ 2– are excluded from the plots. The solid curves, produced by fitting a bimodal Gaussian function to the data, serve to highlight the short-period and long-period populations within each family. The dashed vertical lines define the bifurcation discussed in Section 5. Note the clear bifurcation of periods for Hungaria family asteroids.
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