Production of triple stars by the dynamical decay of small stellar systems.
Abstract
Numerical integrations of three-body systems have been carried out to establish the sufficient criteria for the stability of triple stars. In addition, numerical integrations of unstable five-body systems have been performed to examine the statistics of the formation of binaries and stable triples. The number of triples compared to binaries produced by dynamical decay is consistent with the observed frequencies of these systems.
- Publication:
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The Astronomical Journal
- Pub Date:
- December 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1086/111843
- Bibcode:
- 1975AJ.....80.1081H
- Keywords:
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- Celestial Mechanics;
- Dynamic Stability;
- Many Body Problem;
- Numerical Integration;
- Stellar Systems;
- Ternary Systems;
- Three Body Problem;
- Triple Stars;
- Binary Stars;
- Statistical Distributions;
- Stellar Evolution;
- Systems Stability;
- Astrophysics