IVOA Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (IVOA rendering)

Last uploaded: March 25, 2024

Preferred Name	Roche lobe
Definitions	The region around a star in a binary system within which orbiting material is gravitationally bound to that star. The point at which the Roche lobes of the two stars touch is called the inner Lagrangian point.
ID	http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/uat#roche-lobe
broader	http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/uat#three-body-problem
definition	The region around a star in a binary system within which orbiting material is gravitationally bound to that star. The point at which the Roche lobes of the two stars touch is called the inner Lagrangian point.
exactMatch	http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1405
prefLabel	Roche lobe
related	http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/uat#roche-lobe-overflow

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Delete	Mapping To	Ontology	Source
	http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1405	UAT	LOOM
	http://eurovotech.org/objects-structure.owl#RocheLobe	ASTROBJECT	LOOM