Fun for Two

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2000-08-01

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0008033v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 0 figures to appear in the proceeding of the IAU Symposium 200, "The Formation of Binary Stars" eds. H. Zinnecker and

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We performed populations synthesis calculations of single stars and binaries and show that binary evolution is extremely important for Galactic astronomy. We review several binary evolution models and conclude that they give quite different results. These differences can be understood from the assumptions related to how mass is transfered in the binary systems. Most important are 1) the fraction of mass that is accreted by the companion star during mass transfer, 2) the amount of specific angular momentum which is carried away with the mass that leaves the binary system.

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