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Compact binaries: physics and evolution

Radboud University Nijmegen, 2011

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Lecture 5: Binary evolution

This lecture treats several aspects of binary evolution, including:
  • the Roche potential
  • orbital evolution
  • mass transfer
  • wind mass loss
  • angular-momentum loss
  • common envelopes

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