The Binaries type currently implements random pairing of stars sampled from the provided IMF. This is not actually a very realistic binary model. Think perhaps we should rename this to RandomBinaryPairs or something, and create another sampler that implements a uniform mass ratio model. In this case the provided IMF would actually give the distribution of system masses; we would then sample the mass ratio for binary systems uniformly (see, for example, https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/430/1/L6/1181335).
cgarling
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Binariestype currently implements random pairing of stars sampled from the provided IMF. This is not actually a very realistic binary model. Think perhaps we should rename this toRandomBinaryPairsor something, and create another sampler that implements a uniform mass ratio model. In this case the provided IMF would actually give the distribution of system masses; we would then sample the mass ratio for binary systems uniformly (see, for example, https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/430/1/L6/1181335).