A pas de trois birth for wide binary stars

Keivan Guadalupe Stassun ()
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Keivan Guadalupe Stassun: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, USA, Fisk University, Nashville.

Nature, 2012, vol. 492, issue 7428, 191-192

Abstract: The widest binary star systems pose a challenge to theory: true stellar twins could not form so far apart. Simulations suggest these twins are in fact triplets, two of which masquerade as one star and cast out the third. See Letter p.221

Date: 2012
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