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| Paper: |
Multiplicity of Massive Stars -- a Clue to their Origin? |
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267, Hot Star Workshop III: the Earliest Stages of Massive Star Birth |
| Page: |
209 |
| Authors: |
Zinnecker, H.; Bate, M. R. |
| Abstract: |
The coagulation theory of massive star formation predicts that the most massive stars form in the central densest part of a proto-cluster by stellar collisions and tidal mergers. A further prediction is a high frequency of tight binary systems among massive stars due to tidal capture and the combination of tidal disruption followed by a star-disc encounter (failed stellar mergers). Recent new observations have indeed confirmed this prediction (many short-period SB2 systems among O-stars in young clusters!). |
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