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2004

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Sb9: The Ninth Catalogue Of Spectroscopic Binary Orbits, Dimitri Pourbaix, Andrei A. Tokovinin, Alan H. Batten, Francis C. Fekel, William I. Hartkopf, Hugo Levato, Nidia I. Morrell, Guillermo Torres, Stephane Udry Aug 2004

Sb9: The Ninth Catalogue Of Spectroscopic Binary Orbits, Dimitri Pourbaix, Andrei A. Tokovinin, Alan H. Batten, Francis C. Fekel, William I. Hartkopf, Hugo Levato, Nidia I. Morrell, Guillermo Torres, Stephane Udry

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The Ninth Catalogue of Spectroscopic Binary Orbits (http://sb9.astro.ulb.ac.be) continues the series of compilations of spectroscopic orbits carried out over the past 35 years by Batten and collaborators. As of 2004 May 1st, the new Catalogue holds orbits for 2386 systems. Some essential differences between this catalogue and its predecessors are outlined and three straightforward applications are presented: (1) completeness assessment: period distribution of SB1s and SB2s; (2) shortest periods across the H-R diagram; (3) period-eccentricity relation.