"Grimble Gromble" wrote in message ...
"AA Institute" wrote in message
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Take our Sun for instance and the recent high levels of solar activity
we've seen, sending massive amounts of charged particles toward the
Earth. ...
My god; it's shooting at us!

So it is. Question is: would it shoot harder and more violently if the
Sun had a binary companion of similar size and mass orbiting it at,
say around where Saturn orbits the Sun? And if the orbit of that
secondary star was highly elliptical, would the output vary along the
orbital cycle in line with the distance separating the two stars?

Do gravitational interactions between two stars in a binary system
cause variability in the radiation output...through some kind of a
'tidal wave' inducement?

AAI