Common-envelope mergers: A possible channel for forming single sdB stars

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 687, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Politano, Michael ^a   Taam, Ronald E ^b,c,d   Van Der Sluys, Marc ^b   Willems, Bart ^b  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Horizontal branch stars; Rotation subdwarfs; Stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881122814     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/593328     Document Type: Article

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