The evolution of wide binary stars

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 401, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 977-994

  Jiang, Yan Fei ^a   Tremaine, Scott ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: general; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; Solar neighbourhood; Stars: kinematics

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS;

BINARIES:GENERAL; BINARY STAR; FORMATION TIME; GALAXIES: KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS; GRAVITATIONAL PERTURBATIONS; NUMBER DENSITY; ORBITAL EVOLUTIONS; SEMIMAJOR AXIS; SOLAR NEIGHBOURHOOD; STARS: KINEMATICS;

STARS;

EID: 73649139616     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15744.x     Document Type: Article

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