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Apsidal motion in main-sequence binary stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

C. Simon Jeffery*
Affiliation:
University Observatory, St Andrews, Scotland

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Early studies of apsidal motion in binary stars showed a marked discrepancy between observational results and theoretical expectation (Schwarzschild, 1958; Kopal, 1965). Improvements in theory (Petty, 1973; Odell, 1974; Stothers, 1974) have led to much closer agreement. However, recent observational results (Giménez & García-Pelayo, 1982; Monet, 1980) have provided much more data with which to test theoretical results.

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Type
III. BINARITY, PULSATION, ROTATION AND MIXING
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1984