Description
We report on the results of a survey for radial velocity variability in a heterogeneous sample of very low mass stars and brown dwarfs. One distinguishing characteristic of the survey is its time span, which allows an overlap between spectroscopic binaries and those that can be found by high angular resolution imaging. Despite our relatively low velocity precision, we are able to place a new constraint on the total binary fraction in these objects, which suggests that they are more likely the result of extending the same processes at work at higher masses into this mass range, rather than a distinct mode of formation.
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