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SOME years ago, Sir James Jeans1 considered the problem of the variation in the orbital elements of a binary star in which one or both of the components is losing mass by radiation. He concluded that, in these circumstances, the orbital eccentricity will remain constant, whereas the semi-axis major varies inversely as the sum of the masses of the components.
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BLEKSLEY, A. Loss of Mass in Binary Systems. Nature 133, 613 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133613b0
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