Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The Zoo of Binary Stars
- 2 Statistics of Binary and Multiple Stars
- 3 Gaia and LSST: Their Importance in Binary Star Research
- 4 Population Synthesis of Binary Stars
- 5 Low- and Intermediate-Mass Star Evolution: Open Problems
- 6 The Symbiotic Stars
- 7 Binary Post-AGB Stars as Tracers of Stellar Evolution
- 8 The Importance of Binarity in the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Nebulae
- 9 Massive Star Evolution: Binaries as Two Single Stars
- 10 Binarity at High Masses
- 11 Luminous Blue Variables: Their Formation and Instability in the Context of Binary Interactions
- 12 Type Ia Supernovae: Where Are They Coming From and Where Will They Lead Us?
- 13 Binary Interactions and Gamma-Ray Bursts
- 14 Binaries as Sources of Gravitational Waves
- 15 The Impact of Binaries on the Stellar Initial Mass Function
- 16 The Formation of Binary Stars: Insights from Theory and Observation
- 17 The Maxwell’s Demon of Star Clusters
- 18 Alternative Stellar Evolution Pathways
- 19 Clocks and Scales: Playing with the Physics of Blue Stragglers
- 20 Binaries at Very Low Metallicity
- 21 Population and Spectral Synthesis: It Doesn’t Work without Binaries
- Index
16 - The Formation of Binary Stars: Insights from Theory and Observation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The Zoo of Binary Stars
- 2 Statistics of Binary and Multiple Stars
- 3 Gaia and LSST: Their Importance in Binary Star Research
- 4 Population Synthesis of Binary Stars
- 5 Low- and Intermediate-Mass Star Evolution: Open Problems
- 6 The Symbiotic Stars
- 7 Binary Post-AGB Stars as Tracers of Stellar Evolution
- 8 The Importance of Binarity in the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Nebulae
- 9 Massive Star Evolution: Binaries as Two Single Stars
- 10 Binarity at High Masses
- 11 Luminous Blue Variables: Their Formation and Instability in the Context of Binary Interactions
- 12 Type Ia Supernovae: Where Are They Coming From and Where Will They Lead Us?
- 13 Binary Interactions and Gamma-Ray Bursts
- 14 Binaries as Sources of Gravitational Waves
- 15 The Impact of Binaries on the Stellar Initial Mass Function
- 16 The Formation of Binary Stars: Insights from Theory and Observation
- 17 The Maxwell’s Demon of Star Clusters
- 18 Alternative Stellar Evolution Pathways
- 19 Clocks and Scales: Playing with the Physics of Blue Stragglers
- 20 Binaries at Very Low Metallicity
- 21 Population and Spectral Synthesis: It Doesn’t Work without Binaries
- Index
Summary
We still do not have an end-to-end theory of binary star formation that both satisfies observational constraints and also includes all necessary physical ingredients. Large-scale star formation simulations do an excellent job of replicating binary statistics under severely simplified physical conditions (neglect of thermal feedback and magnetic fields). Simulations that include these processes, however, tend to suppress binary formation, and their extra computational expense makes it hard to generate statistical samples of binaries for observational comparison. In addition to reviewing the literature on binary formation simulations, this chapter also examines the insights into the process that are provided by observations of the youngest protomultiple systems.
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- The Impact of Binary Stars on Stellar Evolution , pp. 225 - 243Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019