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In roughly two centuries astronomers have gone from an almost complete disbelief in the existence of binary stars to a near certain knowledge that more than onehalf of the stars are members of binary or multiple systems. Analogously, in approximately one-half century the field of interacting binaries has changed from the study of a very few apparently unique systems to a very active multifaceted area of astrophysics.
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Sahade, J., McCluskey, G.E., Kondo, Y. (1993). Pending Problems and Final Comments. In: Sahade, J., McCluskey, G.E., Kondo, Y. (eds) The Realm of Interacting Binary Stars. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 177. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2416-4_21
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