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Duplicity on the Main Sequence*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

T. Herczeg
T. Herczeg*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

Abstract

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A review paper or a lecture like the following one, will best serve ‘its’ conference by giving an overview of the basic facts, and an impartial review of current debates, also by trying to point out some apparently crucial questions whose solutions, we hope, will determine the line of future research.

Because these stars are essentially unevolved, beyond the topic of multiplicity on the Main Sequence looms the fundamental problem of the formation of binary star systems. Thus we are going to concentrate on the following questions: the fraction of stars that are formed in binary and multiple systems, the distribution of mass ratios for unevolved systems, the role of very wide pairs and the smallest known stellar or substellar masses. We will pay special attention to nearby binary stars. On the other hand, we do not have the space to discuss in any detail the binaries in extragalactic systems, in the upper regions of the HR-diagram; they are practically all evolved systems.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 80: Double Stars, Physical Properties and Generic Relations , 1984 , pp. 29 - 39
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1984

Footnotes

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Paper presented at the Lembang-Bamberg IAU Colloquium No. 80 on ‘Double Stars: Physical Properties and Generic Relations', held at Bandung, Indonesia, 3-7 June, 1983.

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