Wikipedia:Peer review/Binary star/archive1

Binary star
I nominated this article as binaries are of the highly ,most blah blah blah importance in astrophysics and some related articles are already at FA status. I already tried to improve it by adding references, and after this review I plan to nominate it as featured article. Nick Mks 18:47, 22 April 2006 (UTC)


 * It's a decent page but I think it could be made a little better. Some comments:
 * I have to disagree with the statement "it would be impossible to compute the mass of any star". There is the gravitational microlensing technique, for example.
 * The binary star examples section could be readily expanded into brief statements that describe the systems and explains why they are interesting examples. Also there are multi-star examples in the list; is that appropriate? Maybe the reason they are included could be explained?
 * I'd like to see Beta Lyrae included in the examples, as it is one of the most studied star systems in astronomy.
 * I'd like to see a discussion of widely-separated binaries and the likelihood that they will become non-gravitationally bound as they move through the galaxy.
 * You could potentially also include a discussion of runaway star as it applies to a binary star system.
 * Thanks. &mdash; RJH 15:50, 24 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks very much for your comments. I've implemented the easy changes right away, the rest will follow soon. Nick Mks 17:52, 24 April 2006 (UTC)