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    A symbiotic binary is a type of binary star system, often simply called a symbiotic star. They usually contain a white dwarf with a companion red giant...
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    A binary star or binary star system is a system of two stars that are gravitationally bound to and in orbit around each other. Binary stars in the night...
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  • CAL 83 (LMC), CAL 87 LMC), and 1E 0035.4-7230 (SMC). A symbiotic binary star is a variable binary star system in which a red giant has expanded its outer...
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    WOH G64 (category Binary stars)
    WOH G64 (IRAS 04553-6825) is a symbiotic binary in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), roughly 160,000 light-years from Earth. The main component of this...
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    unusual PN in that it is believed, by some researchers, to contain a symbiotic binary at its center. One study suggests that the dense nebular gas at its...
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    X-ray emitting accretor. Low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) Soft X-ray transients (SXTs) Symbiotic X-ray binaries Super soft X-ray sources or Super soft sources...
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    accretion region can cause orbital variations of several magnitudes. These symbiotic binary systems are composed of a red giant and a hot blue star enveloped in...
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    Mansi M. (1 August 2022). "SRGA J181414.6-225604: A New Galactic Symbiotic X-Ray Binary Outburst Triggered by an Intense Mass-loss Episode of a Heavily...
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    EG Andromedae (often abbreviated to EG And) is a symbiotic binary in the constellation Andromeda. Its apparent visual magnitude varies between 6.97 and...
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    2013. Mikołajewska, J.; Kenyon, S. J. (1992). "On the Nature of the Symbiotic Binary AX Persei". The Astronomical Journal. 103 (2): 579–92. Bibcode:1992AJ...
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    MWC 560 is a symbiotic binary star system in the equatorial constellation of Monoceros. The identifier comes from the Mount Wilson Calatogue of class O...
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    transfer in a close binary system with a second, massive object like a neutron star. One scenario involves an AM CVn type of symbiotic binary star composed...
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  • is a binary star system consisting of a red giant and a white dwarf. It is the prototype of a type of cataclysmic variable star known as symbiotic variable...
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    Intermediate-mass X-ray binary pulsars: a class of intermediate-mass X-ray binaries (IMXB), a pulsar with an intermediate mass star. High-mass X-ray binary pulsars:...
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    Maciej; Polidan, Ronald S.; Slovak, Mark H. (1993). "Evolution of the symbiotic binary system AG Pegasi - The slowest classical nova eruption ever recorded"...
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    ZZ Canis Minoris (category Binary stars)
    ZZ Canis Minoris is a symbiotic binary in the constellation Canis Minor. It is 4,000 light-years distant and is not visible to the naked eye with a maximum...
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    Drechsel, H.; et al. (2000). "A Photometric Study of the Eclipsing Symbiotic Binary AR Pavonis". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 311...
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    An Interacting binary star is a type of binary star in which one or both of the component stars has filled or exceeded its Roche lobe, also known as a...
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    Cygni (CH Cyg / HIP 95413 / BD +49 2999) is a red giant, variable, symbiotic binary in the constellation Cygnus. CH Cygni has a mass of 2 M☉ and a radius...
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  • Katynski, Marcus (2019-04-05). "FUSE Spectroscopic Analysis of the Slowest Symbiotic Nova AG Peg During Quiescence". The Astrophysical Journal. 874 (2): 178...
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    chloroplasts were originally independent organisms that merged into a symbiotic relationship with other one-celled organisms dates back to the 19th century...
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    Star system (section Binary)
    bodies (such as comets). A star system of two stars is known as a binary star, binary star system or physical double star. Systems with four or more components...
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    PU Vulpeculae (category Symbiotic novae)
    ring-like structure. Infrared observations in 1980 suggested this is a symbiotic binary star system consisting of a variable, evolved star that has expanded...
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  • American astronomer and mathematician who studies planetary nebulae and symbiotic binary stars Sonja Lyttkens (1919–2014), Swedish mathematician, first Swedish...
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    Martino, Domitilla (December 2003). "X-ray observations of 4 Draconis: symbiotic binary or cataclysmic triple?". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...
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    T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), nicknamed the Blaze Star, is a binary star and a recurrent nova about 3,000 light-years (920 pc) away in the constellation...
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    A binary pulsar is a pulsar with a binary companion, often a white dwarf or neutron star. (In at least one case, the double pulsar PSR J0737-3039, the...
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    AG Pegasi (category Symbiotic novae)
    AG Pegasi is a symbiotic binary star in the constellation Pegasus, composed of a red giant and white dwarf which are separated by 2.5 astronomical units...
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  • an astronomer and mathematician who studies planetary nebulae and symbiotic binary stars. Lutz was the Boeing Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and...
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    diagram Strömgren sphere Kraft break Star systems Binary Contact Common envelope Eclipsing Symbiotic Multiple Cluster Open Globular Super Planetary system...
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