Observational signatures of past mass-exchange episodes in massive binaries: The case of HD 149 404

2016/01/31 by F. Raucq, G. Rauw, E. Gosset +6 · 24 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Binary number #Geometry #Physics #Rotation (mathematics) #Spectral line #Spectroscopy #Star (game theory) #Stars #Stellar evolution #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph.SR

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201527543

published in Astronomy and Astrophysics 588, A10 (EDP Sciences) · Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Abstract

Context. Mass and momentum exchanges in close massive binaries play an important role in their evolution, and produce several observational signatures such as asynchronous rotation and altered chemical compositions, that remain after the stars detach again.

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