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Wide binaries and old disk population groups

  • Fourth Session Observations of Wide Pairs and Their Results
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Distinguishing wide binaries from contiguous members of young disk population superclusters is not possible with present definitions. Members of old disk population groups have non-parallel space motions and the question, ‘when is a wide binary’ is more easily approached.

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  1. Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Cerro Tololo, Chile

    O. J. Eggen

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Eggen, O.J. Wide binaries and old disk population groups. Astrophys Space Sci 142, 145–151 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00656195

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