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Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy

Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy

Drechsel, Horst
Zejda, Miloslav

Paperback

Astronomy & SpacePhysics

ISBN10: 9048168023
ISBN13: 9789048168026
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 19 2010
Pages: 488
Weight: 1.57
Height: 1.03 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

An international conference entitled Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy was held on the occasion of the late Professor Kopal's 90th birthday in his home town of Litomysl/Czech Republic and dedicated to the memory of one of the leading astronomers of the 20th century.

Professor Kopal, who devoted 60 years of his scientific life to the exploration of close binary systems, initiated a breakthrough in this field with his description of binary components as non-spherical stars deformed by gravity, with surfaces following Roche equipotentials. Such knowledge triggered the development of new branches of astrophysics dealing with the structure and evolution of close binaries and the interaction effects displayed by exciting objects such as cataclysmic variables, symbiotic stars or X-ray binaries.

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