Continuous-birth binary state fractions
ID: continuous-birth-binary-state-fractions
Suppose binary ages have uniform coordinate and independently sampled component masses give disjoint conditional state fractions and . Integrating the conditional pair probabilities gives , , and . The fraction with at least one is , and the fraction of those systems with a second evolved component is . Components share their age, so their unconditional states are correlated even when their birth masses have independence.
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