2019-04-16

binaries

Great Astro Seminar today by Carles Badenes (Pitt), who has been studying binary stars, in the regime that you only have a few radial-velocity measurements. In this regime, you can tell that something is a binary, but you can't tell what its period or velocity amplitude is with any precision (and often almost no precision). He showed results relevant to progenitors of supernovae and other stellar explosions, and also exoplanet populations. Afterwards, Andy Casey (Monash) and I continued the discussion over drinks.

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