Talk:Star system

message: Because of the use of the term 'Star System' in both show-business and astronomy/astrophysics, does this page need to be made into a disambiguation page? There's at least one astronomy page linked to this one (Proxima Centauri). --rparle 01:41, Mar 11, 2004 (UTC)
:As the stubby article indicates, I don't think there's a whole lot of encyclopedic content to write about "star system" in the showbiz context, and it doesn't seem like people would instinctively link to it. I've cleaned out most of the links and redirected to Constellation. I'm no expert, and more informed individuals are welcome to change this if a star system is considered a distinctly different concept. --Michael Snow 22:27, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we can leave the redirect, even if they're not the same thing. Then if someone uses the link and objects to the redirection, maybe that will motivate them to write the article. --Michael Snow 00:00, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I would argue that a misleading redirect is worse than none at all, because it could be confusing.  I've replaced the redirect with a short article, although I'm not an expert in the area.  Wmahan 22:55, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Show biz etc 

message: This page claims Nu Scorpii has "at least seven stars", but the actual Nu Scorpii page mentions only a pair of close binaries with one being a spectroscopic double, for a total of 5 stars. I've replaced Nu Scorpii with castor, which is a sextuple system, and better known. CFLeon 04:49, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There are even more complex systems.--JyriL talk 17:35, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless citable, CFLeon's replacement was a good one. As much as I've read, there are no septuples known yet (for sure). ... said: Rursus (bork²) 22:27, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: According to this link and this one there are 2 septuples known. L8R. ... said: Rursus (mbork³) 12:02, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

text: I found a typo in the link looking up ν Sco in MSC/Tokovinin. The SIMBAD version says the two known septuple systems are Nu Scorpii and AR Cassiopeiae, so it's time to reintroduce septuples in the table. ... said: Rursus (mbork³) 12:24, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple Extreme example 

message: I can't see any reason why we should have separate article for triple star systems.--JyriL talk 17:35, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge from triple star system

message: 91 Aquarii is listed as a quintuple system, probably it is an obsolete theory, or a major confusion somehow, when following diverse links i find four or five star systems with at most three components, see Talk:91_Aquarii#Disputed. ... said: Rursus (mbork³) 18:49, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Dubious

message: Alcor/ Mizar are now considered bound together which makes the Alcor binary and the Mizar quadruple add up to a hextuple. http://arxiv.org/pdf/0911.5028 (Astrophysical Journal) Aidan Karley (talk) 12:15, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Hextuples 

message: Not mentioned in this article, would be useful to understand the nomenclature for star systems.  For example, Alpha Centauri is a triple star system, the individual stars are Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B and Alpha Centauri C, however the system is referred to as Alpha Centauri or Alpha Centauri AB - the reason for this is not entirely clear just looking at this article. Perhaps this article could describe the conventions used and how they are determined based on how stars are gravitationally bound. --EvenGreenerFish (talk) 07:14, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that Alpha Centauri AB and Proxima Centauri are referred to separately for a few reasons - firstly, the fact that they were historically given those names, and secondly, because Proxima is still only a "very likely" member of the system, rather than being 100% verified.  You can see historical "artifact titles" at work a number of systems; for example, the two stars of the Zeta Reticuli system still use their old double star designations, Zeta1 and Zeta2, because they were first thought to be an optical double that wasn't physically associated (rather than members of a wide binary, as we know them to be today). --203.57.209.105 (talk) 03:44, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Designations / Naming COnventions 

message: Wouldn't (a) in the diagram necessarily have to be unstable? --JorisvS (talk) 09:01, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stability of (a) in the diagram 

message: What are the frequencies of double, triple, etc. systems relative to single stars? --JorisvS (talk) 14:18, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frequencies of multiples 

message: Every source I can find online says that Mintaka is a four-star system, with an OII and a BV star pair forming an Algol-type eclipsing binary, and two distant companions (which seem to be mostly unstudied, but one source has the brighter of the two as a B-type star of some sort).  However, it's listed as a quintuple system here, with no citation.  Unless someone can back this up, I'm going to go ahead and change it. --203.57.209.105 (talk) 03:35, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious - Mintaka/Delta Orionis 

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