Abstract
We investigate the effect of orbital decay caused by nuclear expansion of a (sub)giant star in synchronous binary system. We compare this effect with the presence of a magnetic stellar wind and show that the additional transfer of orbital angular momentum into spin angular momentum is relatively important -- especially since it has been shown that the effect of magnetic braking saturates at short orbital periods....
| Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
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| Title of host publication | Evolution of Binary and Multiple Star Systems |
| Publication date | 2001 |
| Publication status | Published - 2001 |