Unified Astronomy Thesaurus

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Roche lobe
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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://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1405
broader

http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1695
contributor

http://editor.vocabs.ands.org.au/user/AAS_Frey.Katie_Admin
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.
modified

2020-11-24T17:01:22.267Z

2020-11-24T17:01:38.294Z
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Roche lobe
related

http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/2155
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