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Our contrast curves show sensitivity up to ~5mag at ~1" separation; at very small separations, we identify candidate companions from image deviations relative to the point spread function. We find candidate tertiary companions for 62% of our binaries overall, but we find that this fraction is a strong function of the inner binary orbital period; it ranges from ~47% for P_bin_&gt;30d to as high as ~90% for P_bin_&lt;~5d. We similarly find an increasing tertiary companion frequency for shorter-period binaries in a secondary sample of Kepler eclipsing binaries observed by Robo-AO. Using Gaia distances, we estimate an upper limit orbital period for each tertiary candidate and compare the tertiary-to-binary period ratios for systems in the field versus those in star-forming regions. 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