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Companion-induced accretion in protobinaries

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Accretion is the process that dictates the mass, and therefore final fate, of a forming star. Now, it seems that the number of stars forming in a system can affect and even induce accretion throughout the star-formation process.

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Fig. 1: The quadrupolar structure in an interacting, accreting binary system.

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