TWIN BINARIES: STUDIES OF STABILITY, MASS TRANSFER, AND COALESCENCE
TWIN BINARIES: STUDIES OF STABILITY, MASS TRANSFER, AND COALESCENCE
Motivated by suggestions that binaries with almost equal-mass components ("twins") play an important role in the formation of double neutron stars and may be rather abundant among binaries, we study the stability of synchronized close and contact binaries with identical components in circular orbits. In particular, we investigate the dependency …