Binary Interaction Dominates the Evolution of Massive Stars
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Binary interaction dominates the evolution of massive stars.
The presence of a nearby companion alters the evolution of massive stars in binary systems, leading to phenomena such as stellar mergers, x-ray binaries, and gamma-ray bursts. Unambiguous constraints on the fraction of massive stars affected by binary interaction were lacking. We simultaneously measured all relevant binary characteristics in a sample of Galactic massive O stars and quantified t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.1223344