Binary interactions and cluster dynamics boost PISN rates by up to 3x versus single stars, enabling constraints on stellar-wind mass loss and galaxy metallicity distributions.
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We compile observations of early-type binaries identified via spectroscopy, eclipses, long-baseline interferometry, adaptive optics, common proper motion, etc. Each observational technique is sensitive to companions across a narrow parameter space of orbital periods P and mass ratios q = M_comp/M_1. After combining the samples from the various surveys and correcting for their respective selection effects, we find the properties of companions to O-type and B-type main-sequence (MS) stars differ among three regimes. First, at short orbital periods P < 20 days (separations a < 0.4 AU), the binaries have small eccentricities e < 0.4, favor modest mass ratios <q> = 0.5, and exhibit a small excess of twins q > 0.95. Second, the companion frequency peaks at intermediate periods log P (days) = 3.5 (a = 10 AU), where the binaries have mass ratios weighted toward small values q = 0.2-0.3 and follow a Maxwellian "thermal" eccentricity distribution. Finally, companions with long orbital periods log P (days) = 5.5-7.5 (a = 200-5,000 AU) are outer tertiary components in hierarchical triples, and have a mass ratio distribution across q = 0.1-1.0 that is nearly consistent with random pairings drawn from the initial mass function. We discuss these companion distributions and properties in the context of binary star formation and evolution. We also reanalyze the binary statistics of solar-type MS primaries, taking into account that (30+/-10)% of single-lined spectroscopic binaries likely contain white dwarf companions instead of low-mass stellar secondaries. The mean frequency of stellar companions with q > 0.1 and log P (days) < 8.0 per primary increases from 0.50+/-0.04 for solar-type MS primaries to 2.1+/-0.3 for O-type MS primaries. We fit joint probability density functions f(M_1,q,P,e) to the corrected distributions, which can be incorporated into binary population synthesis studies.
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