Runaway Star

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5110.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5110. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars, Individual Stellar Objects

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Term used to describe a star that is moving with very high velocity, typically hundreds of kilometers per second, relative to the local standard of rest. Such exceptionally high velocity presumably indicates an `explosive' departure of the star from the location of its formation. The most likely explanation of this is that the star was a minor component of a binary system, ejected when the primar...

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