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Mass Loss from Contact Binary Systems and their Dynamical Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Kyoji Nariai
Kyoji Nariai*
Affiliation:
Tokyo Astronomical Observatory, University of Tokyo Mitaka, Tokyo 181, Japan

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When there is mass loss from a binary system, the lost mass carries energy and angular momentum out of the system. Therefore, the remaining system must adjust its orbital parameters to the changing values of the total kinematic energy E and the total angular momentum N as the total mass M decreases. The parameters concerned here are : the fractional mass μ, the semi-major axis a, and the eccentricity e.

Type
IX. Contact Binaries
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 88: Close Binary Stars: Observations and Interpretation , 1980 , pp. 511 - 515
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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