Roche Lobe

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5109.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5109. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars, Binary Stars

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Within the region surrounding the components of a binary system there are two competing gravity fields. The Roche lobe, named after the French mathematician Édouard Roche (1820-1883), is the volume of space within which any matter is controlled by the gravity field of a single star. It is said to be bound by an `equipotential surface' in which the gravitational force exerted by the star is e...

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