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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.
Presented by H. A. Abt.
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Eggen, O.J. (1988). Wide Binaries and Old Disk Population Groups. In: Dommanget, J., Van Dessel, E.L., Kopal, Z. (eds) Wide Components in Double and Multiple Stars. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2987-6_23
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