Location of our targets with respect to the center of M17. The dashed circle shows the size of the cluster (~2′; Stoop et al. 2024), centered on the position of CEN lab (black cross). The color bar represents the maximum RV difference between any two epochs for the sources with multi-epoch spectra. The sources with disks are marked with white edges and the SB2 326 is shown with a white star. The position of the sources with single-epoch observations is shown with an orange triangle. The figure shows that there are no indications that the location of the shortest-period binaries is dependent on distance to the cluster center.