Sentences with phrase «occur in binary systems»

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[3] Type Ia Supernovae occur when an accreting white dwarf in a binary star system slowly gains mass from its companion until it reaches a limit that triggers the nuclear fusion of carbon.

X-ray binaries, as their name implies, occur in a two - star system in which a neutron star is accompanied by a more normal, low - mass star.

There are few environments more extreme than a binary star system in which planet formation can occur.

Novae, which are significantly less luminous than supernovae, are cataclysmic nuclear explosions that occur on the surface of a white dwarf in a binary system.

Holly depicted the current conditions in which this debate are occurring as rife with deep divisions created by a binary perspective: agroecology on one side and the industrial agricultural system on the other — a conflict further simplified to mean traditional vs modern, pluriethnic vs Western, resilient and flexible vs rigid and restrictive.