num_pages: 332
description: Binary systems of stars are as common as single stars. Stars evolve primarily by nuclear reactions in their interiors, but a star with a binary companion can also have its evolution influenced by the companion. Multiple star systems can exist in a stable state for millions of years, but can ultimately become unstable as one star grows in radius until it engulfs another. This volume discusses the statistics of binary stars; the evolution of single stars; and several of the most important kinds of interaction between two (and even three or more) stars. A series of mathematical appendices provides a concise but complete account of the mathematics of these processes.
language: English
title: Evolutionary Processes in Binary and Multiple Stars
titlecomplete: Evolutionary Processes in Binary and Multiple Stars (Cambridge Astrophysics, Series Number 40)
genres: Science
ratings_count: 2
series: Cambridge Astrophysics
publisher: Cambridge University Press