Are the orbital poles of binary stars in the solar neighbourhood anisotropically distributed?

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Same as Fig. 1 but with a letter coding the value of the galactic V velocity (see Fig. 9). A necessary condition for binary systems to originate from the same cluster/association at birth is to have similar V velocities (see text), hence they should be labelled by the same letter.

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