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Formation of Wide Binaries by Fragmentation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

Peter Bodenheimer  and
Andreas Burkert
Peter Bodenheimer
Affiliation:
UCO/Lick Observatory, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Andreas Burkert
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany

Abstract

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Although observations strongly suggest that fragmentation during the protostar collapse is the primary formation mechanism for wide binaries, the theoretical calculations as yet do not well explain the statistical properties of such systems. The results of a number of numerical simulations are discussed, and it is pointed out that, although fragmentation is obtained in such calculations, in many cases either the initial conditions are not realistic, or the calculations are insufficiently resolved, or the calculations have not been taken far enough to account for the accretion of most of the initial core material onto the components of the forming system. Certain aspects of the numerical results are, however, consistent with the fragmentation hypothesis.

Type
II. Theoretical Context: The Big Picture
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 200: The Formation of Binary Stars , 2001 , pp. 13 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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