Synopses & Reviews
This book contains the proceedings of the International Workshop `Visual Binary Stars: Formation, Dynamics and Evolutionary Tracks' held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 29 - August 1, 1997. The most recent observational results on visual double stars as well as on their dynamics were presented at the Workshop which had nearly 70 participants from 19 countries. Both the astrophysical data and the dynamics of visual binary stars are discussed as a background to tracing their formation and evolutionary trends, largely supported by observational results including those obtained from satellites. The book will be valuable for astronomers interested in research in both visual double and multiple star and celestial mechanics.
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The proceedings of an international workshop held in Santiago de
Compostela, Spain, in July and August 1996. The 59 lectures and
contributed papers cover observations and their results, formation
and evolution, dynamics, astrometric data from satellites, and
catalogues and databases. Among the topics of the lectures are the
construction of the Washington Visual Double Star Catalog and its
future, the contribution of HIPPARCOS to binary evolutionary
research, the numerical treatment of small stellar systems with
binaries, searches for planets around neutron stars, the maximum ages
of trapezium systems, and 20 years of speckle interferometry. A few
of the papers are in French. Some are also published in Celestial
Mechanics vol. 67 no. 2 (1997). No index.
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