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Binary stars are a system of two stars rotating around their center of mass, as opposed to single stellar systems such as our solar system.
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Mass of each star in a binary star system?
A binary star is composed of two stars that orbit around their centre of mass under the influence of gravity. Consider such a system in which two stars have identical mass. In the centre of mass frame …
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Mass of each star in a binary star system?
I seemed to have completely ignored that it was a circle. The solution is as follows:
T = 15 days = 15*24*3600 = 1296000 s;
2pi r = 200 * 10^3 * 1296000
r = 4.12*10^9 m;
R = 2r = 8.24 * 10^9 m;
mv^2 …
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