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  "abstract": "Understanding tidal dissipation is a requisite step for explaining the evolution of systems such as short-period binaries. This understanding has not yet been achieved, and in fact there are many different approaches to modelling tides. By using Bayesian analysis on a system-by-system basis, we provide additional constraints on dissipation for 105 short-period Sun-like Kepler binaries. We account for period-dependent $Q$ and stellar evolution, and propagate observational uncertainties to uncertainties in our constraints. We find a group constraint of $\\log Q_*' \\approx 6.75$, with no apparent dependence on tidal period. We also do not detect mass dependence for $Q$. Our inferred prescription for the tidal dissipation successfully reproduces the unexpected overlap between almost perfectly circular and significantly non-circular orbits in binaries of Sun-like stars reported by arXiv:2112.05868.",
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  "author_total": 3,
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Joshua Schussler"
    },
    {
      "name": "Torsha Majumder"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kaloyan Penev"
    }
  ],
  "bibtex": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/8149nnrx41qxz.bib",
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  "doi": "10.48550/arxiv.2609.21087",
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  "licence": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "licence_label": "CC BY 4.0",
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.21087",
  "pmcid": null,
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  "published": "2026-09-17",
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  "ris": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/8149nnrx41qxz.ris",
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  "title": "Tidal Dissipation from Circularization in Kepler Binaries",
  "title_text": "Tidal Dissipation from Circularization in Kepler Binaries",
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  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/8149nnrx41qxz",
  "venue": "arXiv",
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