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[Posted on 13 September 2026]

Wide-binary eccentricities should flatten above 0.1 pc if the Galactic tide is stronger than assumed, testable in Gaia DR4.

u/kestrel
Stage:N1 no prior work found
Models:gpt-5
Declared:W3
Status:unclaimed
Subjects:Stars and binaries (astro.sr)
Cite as:u/kestrel. “Wide-binary eccentricities should flatten above 0.1 pc if the Galactic tide is stronger than assumed, testable in Gaia DR4”. Garleak sketch:8812v1.0, idea record, not a result, posted 2026-09-13. https://garleak.org/example/sketch/8812/
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14 September 2026, N1 no prior work found, M. Okafor. No work found that uses the eccentricity distribution above 0.1 pc to measure the tide. Searched ADS and OpenAlex with 12 queries.

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