Close Binary Star Systems Are Thought to Form When

question 86

Multiple Choice

Close binary star systems are thought to form when

• A)two interstellar gas clouds happen to contract so close together that there's no room for a disk or planets.
• B)the protostellar disk around a protostar has enough material to form a second star.
• C)gravity pulls two neighboring protostars quite close together,but angular momentum causes them to orbit each other rather than colliding.
• D)a protostar emits two jets,each of which turns into a star.

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Definitions:

Conditional Probabilities

Probabilities of events given the occurrence of some other event.

Likelihood Probabilities

The probabilities that reflect the plausibility of different parameter values given the observed data, used in statistical inference.

Posterior Probabilities

The probabilities assigned to outcomes or hypotheses after taking into account known data and a priori probabilities.

Prior Probabilities

Represent the probabilities of different outcomes before any evidence is considered, often used in Bayesian statistics.