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Observational Selection in Spectroscopic Binary Eccentricities

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Binary and Multiple Stars as Tracers of Stellar Evolution

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ((ASSL,volume 98))

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The discovery-and-identification probability for different shaped orbits of spectroscopic binary stars is estimated. The eccentricity distribution observed in the sample of ∼1000 binaries with known orbits and appearing as strongly peaked toward e=0 is corrected for observational selection effects. The resulting e-distribution seems to be flat for e in the range ∼0.05–0.6 with some excess of circular (or almost circular) orbits and a deficiency of orbits with e ≳ 0.6.

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  1. Warsaw University Observatory and N. Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland

    M. S. Staniucha

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  1. Department of Astronomy, The University, Manchester, UK

    Zdenék Kopal

  2. Dr.-Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg, Astronomisches Institut der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

    Jürgen Rahe

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Staniucha, M.S. (1982). Observational Selection in Spectroscopic Binary Eccentricities. In: Kopal, Z., Rahe, J. (eds) Binary and Multiple Stars as Tracers of Stellar Evolution. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 98. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7861-4_18

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