An analytic technique for constraining the dynamical origins of multiple star systems containing merger products

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 410, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2370-2384

  Leigh, Nathan ^a   Sills, Alison ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Galaxies: star clusters; Stars: binaries; Stars: blue stragglers

Indexed keywords

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; STARS;

ANALYTIC TECHNIQUE; BINARY SYSTEMS; BLUE STRAGGLERS; GALAXIES: STAR CLUSTERS; MULTIPLE STARS; STAR SYSTEMS; STARS: BINARIES; STARS: BLUE STRAGGLERS; STELLARS; TRIPLE SYSTEM;

MERGING;

EID: 78751612664     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17609.x     Document Type: Article

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