spectroscopic binary star

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spectroscopic binary star [¦spek·trə¦skäp·ik ′bī‚ner·ē ′stär]

(astronomy)

A binary star that may be distinguished from a single star only by noting the Doppler shift of the spectral lines of one or both stars as they revolve about their common center of mass.

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