Role in the Universe IAU Symposium 209, 2002 M. Dopita, S. Kwok and R.S. Sutherland, eds. Near-infrared monitoring of the carbon star IRC +10 216 : A high spatial-resolution time sequence of dust -shell evolution G. Weigelt , T. Blocker, K.-H. Hofmann, A. Men'shchikov, J.M. Winters Max{Planck{Institut fur Radioastronomie, 53121 Bonn, Germany Y. Balega Special Astrophysical Observatory, Nizhnij Arkhyz, 35147, Russia The carbon star IRC +10 ... 2000, Tuthill et al. 2000). ...

... According to modern views on the evolution and origin of stars, most of the stars are members of binary systems. ... After the second explosion, the pairs tend to break up and neutron stars and/or black holes fly apart. High velocities of radio pulsars are apparently largely due to this effect. ... For all possible pairs the probability of trajectory approach at small distances for the epoch, corresponding to the age of the younger pulsar have been evaluated. ... Pulsars J0543+2329 and J0528+2200. ...