Re: Binary stars

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

l=1 is a dipole.  But I mis-spoke, of course; l= 0 is spherical, not
circular.  I stand by the rest.
                                Regards,
                                        Jack

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On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Leigh Palmer wrote:

> >        But angular momentum 1 is not a circular orbit it any
> > sense of the word.  The nearest we get to a circular orbit is
> > a very high n s-wave.
>
> Well, an L=1 "orbit" has circular symmetry. That is, the azimuthal
> coordinate is ignorable. Do you mean that the orbit is not spherical?
>
> Leigh