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Evolutionary processes in binary and multiple stars /
Binary systems of stars are as common as single stars. Stars evolve primarily by nuclear reactions in their interiors, but a star with a binary companion can also have its evolution influenced by the companion. Multiple star systems can exist stably for millions of years, but can ultimately become u...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Cambridge astrophysics series ;
40. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Binary systems of stars are as common as single stars. Stars evolve primarily by nuclear reactions in their interiors, but a star with a binary companion can also have its evolution influenced by the companion. Multiple star systems can exist stably for millions of years, but can ultimately become unstable as one star grows in radius until it engulfs another. This volume, first published in 2006, discusses the statistics of binary stars; the evolution of single stars; and several of the most important kinds of interaction between two (and even three or more) stars. Some of the interactions discussed are Roche-lobe overflow, tidal friction, gravitational radiation, magnetic activity driven by rapid rotation, stellar winds, magnetic braking and the influence of a distant third body on a close binary orbit. A series of mathematical appendices gives a concise but full account of the mathematics of these processes. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 322 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-314) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780511226298 0511226292 0511223080 9780511223082 9780511536205 0511536208 9786610550531 6610550530 1107166101 9781107166103 1280550538 9781280550539 0511225725 9780511225727 0511317832 9780511317835 0511225091 9780511225093 |