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Binary Interaction Dominates the Evolution of Massive Stars
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Star Partners: Stars more massive than eight times the mass of the Sun are rare and short-lived, yet they are fundamentally important because they produce all the heavy elements in the universe, such as iron, silicon, and calcium. Sana et al. (p. 444 ) examined the properties of a sample of ∼70 massive stars in six stellar clusters located nearby in our galaxy. Over half of the stars in the sample belong to a binary system and, during the course of their lifetimes, most of the stars in these binaries will interact with one another, either by merging or exchanging mass. Binary interaction may thus affect the evolution of the majority of massive stars.
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“…from several young clusters suggest that, when corrected for obervational bias, the fraction of massive stars in binary systems whose orbital period is so short that the stars must exhange mass or merge is something like 3/4 (Kiminki & Kobulnicky 2012, Kobulnicky & Fryer 2007, Sana et al. 2012).”
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- Sana, H., de Mink, S. E., de Koter, A., Langer, N., Evans, C. J., Gieles, M., Gosset, E., Izzard, R. G., Le Bouquin, J.-B., & Schneider, F. R. N.
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- 2012-07-27
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- 337
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- 6093
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- 444-446
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- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
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- W2157791991
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- 46.95
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