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The evolution of close binary stars

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A review of our current understanding of the physics and evolution of close binary stars with various masses under the influence of the nuclear evolution of their components and their magnetic stellar winds is presented. The role of gravitational-wave radiation by close binaries on their evolution and the loss of their orbital angular momentum is also considered. The final stages in the evolution of close binary systems are described. The review also notes the main remaining tasks related to studies of the physics and evolution of various classes of close binaries, including analyses of collisions of close binaries and supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei. Such a collision could lead to the capture of one of the components by the black hole and the acceleration of the remaining component to relativistic speeds.

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Tutukov, A.M. Cherepashchuk, 2016, published in Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2016, Vol. 93, No. 5, pp. 435–452.

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Tutukov, A.V., Cherepashchuk, A.M. The evolution of close binary stars. Astron. Rep. 60, 461–476 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772916050024

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