Open Astronomy (Dec 2016)

Visual Binary Stars: Data to Investigate Formation of Binaries

  • Kovaleva D.,
  • Malkov O.,
  • Yungelson L.,
  • Chulkov D.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/astro-2017-0261
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 4
pp. 419 – 426

Abstract

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Statistics of orbital parameters of binary stars as well as statistics of their physical characteristics bear traces of star formation history. However, statistical investigations of binaries are complicated by incomplete or missing observational data and by a number of observational selection effects.

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