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Nice click-through tour with some great animations about some of the complexities of Binary Systems.
http://wonka.physics.ncsu.edu/~blondin/AAS/
Information on binary stars and links to online articles.
http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/astro/binstar.html
Organization based in Hungary that studies binary stars.
http://www.konkoly.hu:80/IAUC42/
The Double Star Library hopes to be a means by which various types of binary and multiple star information can be easily disseminated among binary star astronomers in IAU Commission 26 and related commissions.
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Index of /dsl Index of /dsl Name Last modified Size Description Parent Directory dsl.html 31-May-2005 12:06 1.6K Apache/2.0.53 (Fedora) Server at ad.usno.navy.mil Port 80...Information on the PSR 1013+16 pulsar, a part of a binary system, the discoverers of which won the Nobel Prize in 1993.
http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/courses/astro201/psr1913.htm
A single introductory astronomy lecture on Binary Stars, including several useful diagrams.
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HR Diagram They developed the technique of plotting absolute magnitude for a star versus its spectral type to look for families of stellar type. These diagrams, called the Hertzsprung-Russell or HR diagrams, plot luminosity in solar units on the Y axis and...Brief scientific paper on accretion disk polar jetting by Max Domaschko, PhD, So. Charleston, WV, USA. Also links to a small page of hubble photographs of jetstreams from young stars.
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Accretion Disk Polar Jetting, Binary Star Formation and Nemesis Developed and all rights reserved by Max Domaschko, PhD So. Charleston, WV, USA, May 12, 1996 The Hubble Telescope has provided perplexing images of star formation. Gone is the old theory of a simple collapse of a space cloud into...Includes two JAVA simulations of binary star systems.
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Astronomy 101/103 Web Simulations These are simulations have been to help you understand (and picture) various concepts we discuss in Astronomy. They allow you to play Note: To run these simulations you will need a JAVA enabled Web browser. Applet link Description Some math...The purpose of the Double Star Club is to introduce observers to 100 of the finest double and multiple stars in the heavens.
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Double Star Club Introduction Club is to introduce observers to 100 of the finest double and multiple stars in the heavens. You don't need a large, expensive apochromatic refractor to view the objects on this list since a small refractor, Newtonian reflector, or Schmidt-Cassegrain...Hubble Space Telescope News Release/Paper about the discovery of the atmospheric interaction between the giant star Mira and its white dwarf companion star.
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/97/26/PR.html
This is a representation of the binary star on a graphical and easy way.
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Binary Star Simulation A enabled browser to view this simulation. A simplified derivation of the magnitude of the reflex motion of the star due to an orbiting planet can be found here. DESCRIPTION: Allows you to set the masses, orbital separation, orbital eccentricity,...A five-part article by Martin Gaskell of the Prairie Astronomy Club.
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Prairie Astronomy Club: Double Stars To Follow Part I by Martin Gaskell Every amateur astronomer has heard of them. Every star atlas lists them. We've probably all glanced at a few of them. We know, in theory at least, that they orbit each other, but what about really following them as they...This site shows the dynamic hydrodynamic models have shown that the circumstellar flow in Algol is relatively independent of the initial speed and direction of the tidal stream. Rather, the flow dynamics are determined primarily by the strength of radiative cooling, which depends on the density of the gas in the mass transfer stream.
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Mass Transfer in the Binary Star Algol A preprint of this paper is available in postscript form in our Preprint Library. Algol contains a short period semi-detached binary star system with a main sequence primary star and an evolved subgiant companion in close orbital motion about one...Observation program targeted to understand eclipsing binaries without known light ephemeris.
http://home.tiscali.cz/prosper/index.en.html
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
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THE FORMATION OF BINARY STARS 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 1993) have reviewed, a number of different...