Evolutionary Processes in Binary and Multiple Stars (Cambridge Astrophysics)

Evolutionary Processes in Binary and Multiple Stars (Cambridge Astrophysics)

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Book Description
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.

About the Author
Peter Eggleton is a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

Evolutionary Processes in Binary and Multiple Stars (Cambridge Astrophysics),Peter Eggleton,Andrew King,Douglas Lin,Stephen Maran,Jim Pringle,Martin Ward,Cambridge University Press,0521855578,Astronomy - General,Astronomy - Universe,Astrophysics & Space Science,Science,Science/Mathematics,Science / Astrophysics & Space Science,Stars, interstellar matter

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