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A review paper or a lecture like the following one, will best serve ‘its’ conference by giving an overview of the basic facts, and an impartial review of current debates, also by trying to point out some apparently crucial questions whose solutions, we hope, will determine the line of future research.
Because these stars are essentially unevolved, beyond the topic of multiplicity on the Main Sequence looms the fundamental problem of the formation of binary star systems. Thus we are going to concentrate on the following questions: the fraction of stars that are formed in binary and multiple systems, the distribution of mass ratios for unevolved systems, the role of very wide pairs and the smallest known stellar or substellar masses. We will pay special attention to nearby binary stars. On the other hand, we do not have the space to discuss in any detail the binaries in extragalactic systems, in the upper regions of the HR-diagram; they are practically all evolved systems.
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Herczeg, T. Duplicity on the main sequence. Astrophys Space Sci 99, 29–39 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00650228
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