Bo Reipurth

Title: The Dynamical Evolution of Newborn Triple Systems

Abstract: Recent large surveys have established improved statistics of binarity and multiplicity of embedded low-mass stars, which not only have verified the known excess of binaries among newborn stars, but also have discovered a surprising excess of wide companions. A new set of extensive numerical N-body simulations of stellar embryos accreting from dense cloud cores have been able to reproduce the main features of the observations, and have uncovered a wide range of dynamical behaviors, which have unexpected connections to various poorly understood phenomena in early stellar evolution.