Constraints on the pairing properties of main-sequence stars from observations of white dwarfs in binary systems

Ferrario, Lilia

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Constraints on the pairing properties of main-sequence stars from observations of white dwarfs in binary systems

Date

2012

Authors

Ferrario, Lilia

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

Observations of main-sequence stars conducted over the last several decades have clearly shown that something like 50 per cent of stars of spectral types G and F occur in multiple systems. For earlier spectral types, the incidence of multiplicity is even