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Table 1 Necessary parameters to describe a single star system, a binary and a triple

From: The evolution of hierarchical triple star-systems

Parameters

Stellar

Orbital

Single star

m

-

Binary

\(m_{1}\), \(m_{2}\)

a, e

Triple

\(m_{1}\), \(m_{2}\), \(m_{3}\)

\(i_{\mathrm{mutual}}\), \(a_{\mathrm {in}}\), \(e_{\mathrm{in}}\), \(g_{\mathrm{in}}\), \(h_{\mathrm{in}}\), \(a_{\mathrm{out}}\), \(e_{\mathrm{out}} \), \(g_{\mathrm{out}}\), \(h_{\mathrm {out}}\)

  1. For stellar parameters, age and metallicity of each star can be added. The table shows that as the multiplicity of a stellar system increases from one to three, the problem becomes significantly more complicated.