{"id":220,"date":"2009-03-17T23:31:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T12:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2009-03-17T23:31:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T12:31:05","slug":"088-dr-ross-church-binary-star-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"088 &#8211; Dr Ross Church &#8211; Binary Star Formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ross Church is a PhD from Cambridge, and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash University.  I talked to him about binary stars:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; What are binary stars?<br \/>\n&#8211; How common are they?<br \/>\n&#8211; Can stars exist in triple or more systems?<br \/>\n&#8211; How big are most binary stars?<br \/>\n&#8211; How do binary stars form?<br \/>\n&#8211; How can we detect binary stars through observation?<br \/>\n&#8211; Can binary systems have planets?<\/p>\n<p>Also featured are listener of the episode, and listener feedback.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/~brainsmatter\/BM088-RossChurchBinary.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 88<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This episode of Brains Matter is brought to you by <a href=\"http:\/\/astronomy.swin.edu.au\/sao\">Swinburne Astronomy Online<\/a><br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/astronomy.swin.edu.au\/sao\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/SAOLogo.png?t=1212883097\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nPlease vote for this podcast this month at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/one_vote2.php?pod_id=40939\" title=\"Podcast Alley - Your Podcast Library\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/images\/podcastalley_icon.gif\" alt=\"PodcastAlley.com Feeds\" border=\"0\" height=\"15\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can donate by clicking on the button above, and subscribe by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=257301606\">subscribing in iTunes <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/iTunesWord.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Ross Church is a PhD from Cambridge, and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Monash University. I talked to him about binary stars: &#8211; What are binary stars? &#8211; How common are they? &#8211; Can stars exist in triple or more systems? &#8211; How big are most binary stars? &#8211; How do binary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,19,20],"tags":[354,47,55,365,200,369,222,240,244],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-interview","category-physics","category-podcast","tag-astronomy","tag-astrophysics","tag-binary-stars","tag-interview","tag-planets","tag-podcast","tag-ross-church","tag-solar-systems","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}