Massive binary evolution

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Mar 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010newar..54...39p&link_type=abstract

New Astronomy Reviews, Volume 54, Issue 3-6, p. 39-44.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Understanding the evolution of massive binaries is essential for understanding many observed classes of stellar systems, ranging from Algols to X-ray binaries, recycled pulsars, double-neutron-star systems and quite possibly gamma-ray burst sources. Here recent progress and some of the main remaining uncertainties are being reviewed, particularly emphasizing stellar mergers and their possible implications for supernovae like SN 1987A, Thorne-Żytkow objects and η Car-like eruptions. It is shown how binary evolution can affect both the envelope and the core structure of a massive star, explaining - at least in part - the observed diversity of core-collapse supernovae and potentially producing different kick distributions for systems in binaries. Various ideas linking gamma-ray bursts to massive binaries are also being discussed.

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