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Rotational Correlation in Binary Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Raphael Steinitz
Affiliation:
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Diane M. Pyper
Affiliation:
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Abstract

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A method for testing the possible correlation between axial rotations of pairs of stars is developed. The test is applied to a sample of visual binaries. It is concluded that some kind of coupling between the spins of components of visual binaries does in fact exist.

Type
Part III / Stellar Rotation in Binaries, Clusters, and Special Objects. Statistics of Stellar Rotation
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1970

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