EVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES IN BINARY AND MULTIPLE STARS
Author(s): Peter Eggleton
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 in a stable state for millions of years, but can ultimately become unstable as one star grows in radius until it engulfs another. This volume 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. A series of mathematical appendices provides a concise but complete account of the mathematics of these processes.
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- : Cambridge University Press
- : 0.530703
- : 15 September 2011
- : 1.8 Centimeters X 17 Centimeters X 24.4 Centimeters
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- : Peter Eggleton
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 523.841
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