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    A visual binary is a gravitationally bound binary star system that can be resolved into two stars. These stars are estimated, via Kepler's third law,...
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    stars using a telescope, in which case they are called visual binaries. Many visual binaries have long orbital periods of several centuries or millennia...
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    Double star (redirect from Optical binary)
    Earth. Visual binaries are gravitationally bound stars that are separately visible with a telescope. Non-visual binaries are stars whose binary status...
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    system used is often "0" and "1" from the binary number system. The binary code assigns a pattern of binary digits, also known as bits, to each character...
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  • Close binaries are close to each other and are able to transfer mass from one another. They can also be classified based on how we observe them. Visual binaries...
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    A binary image is a digital image that consists of pixels that can have one of exactly two colors, usually black and white. Each pixel is stored as a single...
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    Star system (section Binary)
    close visual binary star; because Gliese 644B is a spectroscopic binary, this is actually a triple system. The triple system has the more distant visual companion...
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    74 Aquarii (category Spectroscopic binaries)
    separation of 13.9±2.4 AU. The primary star of the visual pair is a double-lined spectroscopic binary, where the presence of both components is revealed...
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    TOI-6883 (category Binary stars)
    TOI-6883 is a wide visual binary star system located in the constellation of Delphinus, at a distance of approximately 94 parsecs (307 light-years) from...
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    a visual binary have a distance of at least 1 AU. The shortest period of a visual binary is 1.7 year. Therefore the orbital speed of visual binaries (with...
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    positions are now sufficiently accurate for visual observers to determine the relative places of the stars from a binary star ephemeris. Others, like D. Pourbaix...
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    An application binary interface (ABI) is an interface exposed by software that is defined for in-process machine code access. Often, the exposing software...
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    3847/1538-3881/acdee4. Edwards, T. W. (April 1976), "MK classification for visual binary components", Astronomical Journal, 81: 245–249, Bibcode:1976AJ.....81...
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    ADS 1359 (category Spectroscopic binaries)
    faintly visible to the naked eye under ideal observing conditions. The visual binary was discovered by Sherburne Wesley Burnham at Dearborn Observatory in...
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    he published an article there in which he estimated the densities of visual binary stars. Using the white dwarf star ο2 Eridani B, he determined its density...
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    into the direction of positive declination. In the case of observed visual binary stars, it is defined as the angular offset of the secondary star from...
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  • 1974AJ.....79..819H Heintz, W. D. (1974). "Astrometric study of four visual binaries". The Astronomical Journal. 79: 819–825. Bibcode:1974AJ.....79..819H...
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    Automatic Insertion of Telemetry into C++ Binaries "Visual Studio adding telemetry function calls to binary? • /r/cpp". reddit. 7 May 2016. Retrieved...
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    be very dense. When Ernst Öpik estimated the density of a number of visual binary stars in 1916, he found that 40 Eridani B had a density of over 25000 times...
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  • star hosts two transiting exoplanets discovered in 2020 and forms a visual binary system with a nearby red dwarf star BD−14 1137 B. Both planets are hot...
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    spectroscopic binary with an orbital period of 88 days and an orbital period of 1.1 astronomical units. Farther away is the B companion, a visual binary whose...
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    very dense. For example, when Ernst Öpik estimated the density of some visual binary stars in 1916, he found that 40 Eridani B had a density of over 25,000...
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    Morel, P. (1998-10-01). "Fundamental stellar parameters for nearby visual binary stars: eta Cas, XI Boo, 70 OPH and 85 Peg. Helium abundance, age and...
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    Hartkopf, W. I.; et al. (June 30, 2006), Sixth Catalog of Orbits of Visual Binary Stars, United States Naval Observatory, archived from the original on...
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    Rebecca Sugar (category Non-binary directors)
    making her the first non-binary person to independently create a series for the network; prior to coming out as non-binary, Sugar was described as the...
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    In computer science, binary space partitioning (BSP) is a method for space partitioning which recursively subdivides a Euclidean space into two convex...
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    13 Ceti (category Spectroscopic binaries)
    although it is too old to be a member. This star was identified as a visual binary system by G. W. Hough in 1844 and given the identifier HO 212. The pair...
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    English: the Second Star of Celestial Flail.) The two stars of the visual binary are considered to be a common proper motion pair on the basis of their...
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    branch (AGB). The primary star forms a visual binary pair with a second star, which is itself a spectroscopic binary. Alpha Herculis also forms the A and...
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    Visual cryptography is a cryptographic technique which allows visual information (pictures, text, etc.) to be encrypted in such a way that the decrypted...
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