Article: Interacting binaries; accretion, evolution, and outcomes; proceedings.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Massive stars in interacting binaries; ...
SciTech Book News;  December 1, 2007 ;     545 words ...9781583812358 Massive stars in interacting binaries; proceedings. Ed. by Nicole St-Louis and Anthony F.J. Moffat. Astronomical Soc./Pacific 2007 748 pages $77.00 Hardcover ...

Dictionary definition: spectroscopic binary
A Dictionary of Astronomy;      374 words ... ... spectrum. All close binaries (including cataclysmic and interacting binaries ) fall into this category, as do most eclipsing binaries ... dimensions and masses of the stars can be calculated. With interacting binaries, there are limitations to the latter procedure because ...

Article: New astrophysics findings from Vrije University described.
Physics Week;  September 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... for a longer time with a higher mass- ratio without disturbing the distribution of orbital periods too much, interacting binaries have to lose a significant fraction of their total mass without losing much angular momentum before or during ...

Article: INTERACTIVE BINARY STARS SHOW SIGNS OF INDUCED HYPERACTIVITY
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... low-mass star." The artist's concept shown at http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr07/images/interacting-binaries.jpg visualizes such an effect: it shows a cool low-mass red star with a highly magnetic white dwarf locked in a ...

Article: Research reports on astrophysics from D. Demartino and colleagues ...
Physics Week;  April 28, 2009 ;     472 words ... ... Astrophysics and Space Science, "Cataclysmic Variables are the most abundant population of galactic compact interacting binaries." "They represent test objects to improve our knowledge of accretion theory as well as evolution of low ...

Dictionary definition: nova
A Dictionary of Astronomy;      626 words ... ... sudden, unpredictable outburst, with a typical amplitude of 11–12 mag.; abbr. N. Novae are interacting binaries, and usually consist of a main-sequence or slightly evolved secondary and a white-dwarf primary. Mass transfer ...

Article: Scientists find double white dwarf stars that can be a good ...
The Hindustan Times;  June 7, 2007 ;     580 words ... ... extracting information about a particular LISA source which appears in a crowded region of the signal. If in fact the interacting binaries do dominate the LISA signal at some level, there should be a way to disentangle the various gravitational wave ...