Wikipedia:Peer review/Binary star/archive1

Binary star[edit]

I nominated this article as binaries are of the highly ,most blah blah blah

importance in astrophysics and some related articles are already at FA status. I already tried to improve it by adding references, and after this review I plan to nominate it as featured article. Nick Mks 18:47, 22 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's a decent page but I think it could be made a little better. Some comments:

I have to disagree with the statement "it would be impossible to compute the mass of any star". There is the gravitational microlensing technique, for example.
The binary star examples section could be readily expanded into brief statements that describe the systems and explains why they are interesting examples. Also there are multi-star examples in the list; is that appropriate? Maybe the reason they are included could be explained?
I'd like to see Beta Lyrae included in the examples, as it is one of the most studied star systems in astronomy.
I'd like to see a discussion of widely-separated binaries and the likelihood that they will become non-gravitationally bound as they move through the galaxy.
You could potentially also include a discussion of runaway star as it applies to a binary star system.

Thanks. — RJH 15:50, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much for your comments. I've implemented the easy changes right away, the rest will follow soon. Nick Mks 17:52, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]