Lecture – Stars Squared: Evolution of Binary Stars

New research using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope has revealed that the hottest and brightest stars, which are known as O stars, are often found in close pairs. Many of such binaries transfer mass from one star to another, a kind of stellar vampirism depicted in this artist’s impression. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/S.E. de Mink

Lecturers: Dr. Fabian Schneider

Term: Summer Semester 2024

About: Binary stars as observational probes of single-star theory; advanced stellar evolution; basic evolutionary processes in binary stars (e.g. tides, mass transfer, stellar mergers, common-envelope evolution); compact object binaries; gravitational-wave sources

Course homepage: https://uebungen.physik.uni-heidelberg.de/vorlesung/20241/binary-star

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