Henri M. J. Boffin is a staff astronomer at the European Southern Observatory, Garching. Recently he has shown the importance of binary stars in explaining planetary nebulae, including discovering the binary star of Fleming 1. He pioneered the use of optical interferometry to study mass transfer in symbiotic stars.
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The Importance of Binaries in the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Nebulae

Henri M. J. Boffin , David Jones

It is now clear that a binary evolutionary pathway is responsible for a significant fraction of all planetary nebulae, with some authors even going so far as to claim that binarity may be a near requirement for the formation of an observable nebula. This has led to the...

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Astronomy at High Angular Resolution

Jean-Philippe Berger , Henri M. J. Boffin , Gaitee Hussain , Linda Schmidtobreick

This book offers an essential compendium of astronomical high-resolution techniques. Recent years have seen considerable developments in such techniques, which are critical to advances in many areas of astronomy. As reflected in the book, these techniques can be divided...



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Ecology of Blue Straggler Stars

Giacomo Beccari , Henri M. J. Boffin , Giovanni Carraro

The existence of blue straggler stars, which appear younger, hotter, and more massive than their siblings, is at odds with a simple picture of stellar evolution. Such stars should have exhausted their nuclear fuel and evolved long ago to become cooling white dwarfs....



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