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A binary star formation mechanism through the fragmentation of prolate dense cores rotating end over end

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Hans Zinnecker
Hans Zinnecker*
Affiliation:
Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Univ. Würzburg, Germany

Abstract

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I propose and briefly elaborate on a major new mechanism for the formation of wide, low-mass binary stars: the fragmentation of a collapsing, initially elongated dense molecular core rotating end over end. This initial structure will develop into two independent gravitationally bound stellar condensations orbiting each other in a rather eccentric orbit.

Type
Poster Sessions
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 147: Fragmentation of Molecular Clouds and Star Formation , 1991 , pp. 526 - 528
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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