Structure of Close Binaries. IV: Non-Synchronous Polytropes
Abstract
Models of uniformly rotating non-synchronous binary polytropes have been calculated and compared with the results obtained from the Roche model. It is found that the relative dimensions of the non-synchronous systems are adequately portrayed by a Roche model but the degree of central condensation affects the minimum separation by an amount which is probably not insignificant.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- September 1972
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00645281
- Bibcode:
- 1972Ap&SS..18...85N