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I have a couple of questions for you on binary stars. I would just like to know how the stars got their name "Binary," which scientist discovered them, and why people find them so interesting. ... Imagine Home | Ask an Astrophysicist | Why are binary stars interesting?
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imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980202a.ht...
imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980202a.html
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Why are binary stars interesting? ... How do binary stars get detected when you can't see them? ... Could planets exist in stable orbits around binary stars?
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imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/binary.html
imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/binary.html
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Recent observational investigations of the frequency of occurrence of pre-main-sequence binary stars have reinforced earlier suspicions that ''binary formation is the primary branch of the star-formation process'' (Mathieu 1994). As Bodenheimer et al.
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www.phys.lsu.edu/astro/nap98/bf.final.html
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What stable orbits are possible around binary stars? I poked at the problem some and found a couple interesting stable orbits. ... This was started by the question on sci.astro, is it possible for a planet to be in a stable figure-8 orbit around the two stars in a binary system? As near as I can tell, the answer is no.
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burtleburtle.net/bob/physics/binary.html
burtleburtle.net/bob/physics/binary.html
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Click here for some interesting Eclipsing Binary Star Facts. ... see also Dan Bruton's Eclipsing Binary Stars web site ... About the Author: is an active research astronomer teaching at The University of Arkansas. His main research area is binary stars (big surprise!). He has published over 78 research papers.
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www.uark.edu/misc/clacy/BinaryStars/
www.uark.edu/misc/clacy/BinaryStars/
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StarLight Pro produces animated views of eclipsing binary stars and calculate synthetic lightcurves. The effects of limb darkening, temperature, inclination, stellar size, mass ratio, and star shape are included. ... 85 Interesting Double Stars and 22 Interesting Varible Stars...
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www.midnightkite.com/binstar.html
www.midnightkite.com/binstar.html
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Binary Stars Astronomy Lecture - A single introductory astronomy lecture on Binary Stars, including several useful diagrams. ... Eclipsing Binary Stars - Information on binary stars and links to online articles.
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www.dmoz.org/Science/Astronomy/Stars/Binary_Stars/
www.dmoz.org/Science/Astronomy/Stars/Binary_Stars/
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There is a great deal more interesting science in the field of binary and multiple stars than can possibly be fit in the time allotted for this symposium. We encourage you to attend some of the business/science meetings of the commissions and working groups who have sponsored or supported this meeting;
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ad.usno.navy.mil/iaus240/
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Five to ten percent of the stars visible to us are visual binary stars. Careful spectroscopic studies of nearby solar-type stars show that about two thirds of them have stellar companions. We estimate that roughly half of all stars in the sky are indeed members of binaries.
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www.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses/astro201/binsta...
www.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses/astro201/binstar.htm
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