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| • | Hydrodynamics
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| • | blue straggler
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| • | runaway mergers |
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| • | formation of
ultracompact x-ray binaries |
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| • | stability of red
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| n | MODEST Working
Group 4: Stellar Collisions |
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| n | Contact:Marc Freitag |
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| n | http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~freitag/MODEST_WG4/ |
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