Breadcrumb Home Labs Advanced Labs Eclipsing Binary Stars Pre-Lab Quiz: Binary Stars Pre-Lab Quiz: Binary Stars Discuss each question with your team. Be prepared to explain the reasoning behind your team's answers after the quiz. A binary star is ________ A star system consisting of 0 or 1 components A star system consisting of two components A star that formed from two stars that merged A star with two dumbbell-like lobes resulting from high spin Which best describes an eclipsing binary? A star that, like the Sun, is regularly hidden behind the Moon A pair of stars whose orbits we see roughly edge-on A star system with planets that eclipse the star's light A pair of stars that orbit a common center of mass How do we detect eclipsing binaries? by watching the motion of the individual stars around each other by looking for blinking stars by looking for stars with regular changes in brightness by receiving their radio pulses Which is the most common way binary stars form? from a collapsing molecular cloud from the merger of two larger stars when a collapsing star that spins so quickly it splits in two when two stars pass close enough that they start orbiting each other
