Timeline for What is the tidal radius of the Sirius system?
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| Nov 30, 2019 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAstronomy/status/1200655816573014016 | ||
| Dec 13, 2016 at 9:34 | vote | accept | memex | ||
| Dec 12, 2016 at 21:03 | answer | added | ProfRob | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 18:50 | comment | added | memex | Yes, or, I came across the term in a paper on the Fomenhault system "We demonstrate that the astrometry, radial velocity, and photometric data for LP 876-10 are consistent with the star being a third, bound, stellar component to the Fomalhaut multiple system, despite the star lying nearly 6◦ away from Fomalhaut A in the sky. The 3D separation of LP 876-10 from Fomalhaut is only 0.77 ± 0.01 pc, and 0.987 ± 0.006 pc from TW PsA (Fomalhaut B), well within the estimated tidal radius of the Fomalhaut system (1.9 pc). " So basically, what they use it for. | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 18:38 | comment | added | Phiteros | By "tidal radius", you mean the distance past which an object will no longer be gravitationally bound to the system? | |
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| Dec 12, 2016 at 17:36 | history | asked | memex | CC BY-SA 3.0 |