In astronomy, the Roche lobe is the region around a star in a binary system within which orbiting material is gravitationally bound to that star. It is...
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mechanics. His name was given to the concepts of the Roche sphere, Roche limit, and Roche lobe. He also was the author of works in meteorology. He was...
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multi-driver loudspeakers Delta lobe or deltaic lobe, the projection of a river delta mouth into standing water Roche lobe, the region of space around a...
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In celestial mechanics, the Roche limit, also called Roche radius, is the distance from a celestial body within which a second celestial body, held together...
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the components fills the binary star's Roche lobe and the other does not. Gas from the surface of the Roche-lobe-filling component (donor) is transferred...
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divided grossly into four parts or lobes: the right lobe, the left lobe, the caudate lobe, and the quadrate lobe. Seen from the front – the diaphragmatic...
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siblings Roche limit (also known as the "Roche radius"), a concept in celestial mechanics Roche lobe, a concept in celestial mechanics Roche (spider)...
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in which one or both of the component stars has filled or exceeded its Roche lobe. When this happens, material from one star (the donor star) will flow...
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transfer when it overfills its Roche lobe and as a consequence the orbit will shrink further causing it to overflow the Roche lobe even more, which accelerates...
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its Roche lobe. The secondary may also be a main sequence star, referred to as a detached binary or it may an evolved star filling its Roche lobe, referred...
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companion may be a "bloated main-sequence star, possibly still filling its Roche Lobe". Hessels and collaborators go on to speculate that gravitational radiation...
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the Moon. In binary stars, the Roche lobe has its apex located at L1; if one of the stars expands past its Roche lobe, then it will lose matter to its...
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produced by the outer layers of a companion star that has overflowed its Roche lobe. The transfer of angular momentum from this accretion event can increase...
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shed its envelope onto its white dwarf companion when it overflows its Roche lobe. As a result, the white dwarf steadily captures matter from the companion's...
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thinness. The size of the equatorial ridge is comparable with the expected Roche lobe of the moon, which means that for any additional particles impacting the...
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Gravitational binding energy Speed of gravity Newtonian limit Hill sphere Roche lobe Roche limit Phase space Symplectic manifold Liouville's theorem (Hamiltonian)...
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hole or neutron star. The other component, a donor, usually fills its Roche lobe and therefore transfers mass to the compact star. In LMXB systems the...
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Hill sphere (redirect from Roche sphere)
website. Laplace sphere Interplanetary Transport Network n-body problem Roche lobe Sphere of influence (astrodynamics) Sphere of influence (black hole) At...
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binary with the third longest known period. A red supergiant fills its Roche lobe when closest to a companion blue star, the latter appearing to be on the...
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fills its Roche lobe and it is predicted that it will encounter its Roche lobe in a few hundred thousand years. Once it reaches its Roche lobe, it will...
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gravitationally bound. Material that passes beyond this lobe may fall toward the orbiting companion. This Roche lobe is believed to be close to the surface of HDE 226868...
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dwarf with a companion red giant. The cool giant star loses material via Roche lobe overflow or through its stellar wind, which flows onto the hot compact...
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companion (forming an X-ray binary) until the now-red supergiant exceeded its Roche lobe and began spilling material onto the neutron star, with the transfer being...
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magnetized pulsars travelling through asteroid belts, or from an intermittent Roche lobe overflow in a neutron star-white dwarf binary. On 16 December 2016 six...
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pulsar's red giant companion expanded, it filled and then exceeded its Roche lobe, so that its surface layers started being transferred onto the neutron...
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the less-massive (and the larger) of the two white dwarfs will fill its Roche lobe and start mass transfer to its companion. Soon after the onset of mass...
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which matter gravitationally bound to a body, usually a star, fills its Roche lobe and becomes gravitationally bound to a second body, usually a compact...
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star, either from the companion's stellar wind or the overflow of its Roche lobe as it evolves. However, the progenitor of SN 2003fg reached two solar...
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example, when any star expands to become a red giant, it may overflow its Roche lobe, the surrounding region where material is gravitationally bound to it;...
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52 days. It is a semidetached system, as the secondary star is filling its Roche lobe and transferring matter to the primary. RW Ursae Minoris is a cataclysmic...
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