Multiplicity of Cool Stars and their Evolution

Abstract

Making up a sizeable portion of the galactic census, stellar multiples are experiencing a renaissance. Enabling the study of multiple strands of the study of cool stars, stellar multiples have been found and characterised in great numbers by the missions of the last decade, allowing the exploration of stellar parameters and populations, observation of stellar interactions, studies into stellar formation and evolution, and characterisation of circumbinary systems. This exciting explosion of science is only set to continue, with future missions set to offer even further insights into the topic. Within these proceedings we will summarise the presentations and discussions on cool stellar multiplicity within our splinter sessions at the 23rd Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, as we examine the present state of the field and look to what the future may bring.