How common are widely separated stars?
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I'm not sure - it's not something I've been keeping precise track of. Good question.
Certainly it's quite common to find stars that are hundreds of thousands of light seconds apart, but I'm not sure what the boundaries for proc-gen star systems are like - I mean, how far apart they can possibly get, and how they tend to be distributed.
I'm going to be surveying a large number of proc-gen systems in SKAUDE sector soon, so I may look at it then, might as well take the opportunity.
(I do have that data for a lot of systems, but not ones that have been randomly or exhaustively chosen, so not useful for determining how common they are...)
Certainly it's quite common to find stars that are hundreds of thousands of light seconds apart, but I'm not sure what the boundaries for proc-gen star systems are like - I mean, how far apart they can possibly get, and how they tend to be distributed.
I'm going to be surveying a large number of proc-gen systems in SKAUDE sector soon, so I may look at it then, might as well take the opportunity.
(I do have that data for a lot of systems, but not ones that have been randomly or exhaustively chosen, so not useful for determining how common they are...)
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In over 50,000 systems, seen quite a few that were 500k-570k (went that far to tag an ELW around the second star) but I don't remember any over 600k.
I wondered a similar question when I was going to fly off and discover the last unclaimed star in one system, then noticed it was 0.3 Ly away, ! Cant remember where it was now.
So what is the record for the furthest?
Sigma Orionis: 0.26 LY from jump in (IIRC some other component than A was 0.27 LY away from E)
36 Ophiuchi is similiar IIRC. The secondary star is ~0.16Ly away and has the only 3 orbital stations in the system around it.
I was actively looking for such stars during my explorations trips. They are not common, but not unique either. The irony is that while i was looking for such stars far away in the deep space, the most distant was in the Bubble itself. Dont remember the exact numbers but it was something ridiculously big. Somebody posted it at one the exploration websites.
On the scale of the universe, singular systems like the one we live in is actually the uncommon ones, though with universal scale even uncommon means tens of billions of stars like that, but yeah.Question from the curious: How common are binary systems with the bodies separated by 500k LS+ ?
Apart from Hutton Orbital, obviously.
Have to be more specific than that.
Furthest away component stars in a system I've seen mentioned anywhere are found in the aforementioned Sigma Orionis system.
https://docs.google.com/presentatio...rFnj6j2hc/edit?pli=1#slide=id.g6c9b8a7c3_3_19
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Have to be more specific than that.
Furthest away component stars in a system I've seen mentioned anywhere are found in the aforementioned Sigma Orionis system.
https://docs.google.com/presentatio...rFnj6j2hc/edit?pli=1#slide=id.g6c9b8a7c3_3_19
This is the system:
http://www.elitegalaxyonline.com/object-view/?object_id=9962
Too lazy to make the calculations atm, so not sure how this translates to ly.
The good old Alpha / Proxima Centauri system!
This is the system:
http://www.elitegalaxyonline.com/object-view/?object_id=9962
Too lazy to make the calculations atm, so not sure how this translates to ly.
Distance from juump point to Hutton Orbital is 0.22 LY.
Sigma Orionis and Alpha Centauri don't really count because they are handcrafted. I think the OP means stars among proc gen systems, not handcrafted ones.
In that case, I'd toss a number around 1-3% of systems to have component star(s) 400k+ Ls away from jump point.
Came across a couple last night on my way back from out near the traffid nebula. So I'd say.... uncommon. But not rare.