Velocities of Cygnus OB2 massive binaries

A high degree of similarity (91% likelihood) between the Cyg OB2 period distribution and that of other surveys suggests that the binary properties at P<~25days are determined by local physics of disk/clump fragmentation and are relatively insensitive to environmental and evolutionary factors. Fully 30% of the unbiased parent sample is a binary with period P<45days. Completeness corrections imply a binary fraction near 55% for P<5000days.

The observed distribution of mass ratios 0.2<q<1 is consistent with uniform, while the observed distribution of eccentricities 0.1<e<0.6 is consistent with uniform plus an excess of e=~0 systems. We identify six stars, all supergiants, that exhibit aperiodic velocity variations of ~30km/s attributed to atmospheric fluctuations.