Binaries as Tracers of Stellar Formation
Аннотация
1. N-body simulations of primordial binaries and tidal capture in open clusters 2. When and how can binary data test similar models? 3. Statistical analysis of single-lined red giant spectroscopic binaries 4. The formation of binary stars 5. Distribution and evolution of orbital elements for 1 M primaries 6. Tidal circularization of short period binaries 7. Composite-spectrum binaries 8. Orbital elements for field late-type binaries 9. Evidences for interaction among wide binary systems: to Ba or not to Ba? 10. Spectroscopic binaries in the open cluster M67 11. Spectroscopic binaries in the halo 12. Eccentricity evolution of a binary embedded in a disk 13. The eccentricity distribution of pre-main sequence binaries 14. A new algorithm to derive the mass-ratio distribution of spectroscopic binaries in open clusters 15. Are barium dwarfs progenitors of barium giants 16. RZ Eridani as a constraint on synchronization and circularization times 17. Ekman layers and tidal synchronization of binary stars 18. The distribution of mass ration in late-type main-sequence binary systems 19. The dynamical evolution of G-type main sequence binaries 20. Present state of the tidal theory 21. Infrared companions: clues to binary star formation 22. The distribution of cutoff periods with age: an observational constraint on tidal circularization theory.