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Fast rotating blue stragglers prefer loose clusters [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 Blue stragglers are anomalously luminous core hydrogen-burning stars formed through mass-transfer in binary/triple systems and stellar collisions. Their physical and evolutionary properties are largely unknown and unconstrained.
Francesco R. Ferraro +11 more
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A binary-related origin mediated by environmental conditions for blue straggler stars [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsBlue stragglers are anomalously massive core hydrogen-burning stars that, according to the theory of single star evolution, should not exist. They are suspected to form in mass-enhancement processes, involving binary evolution or stellar collisions.
Francesco R. Ferraro +9 more
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Fast-rotating Blue Straggler Stars in the Globular Cluster NGC 3201 [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 We used high-resolution spectra acquired with the Magellan Telescope to measure radial and rotational velocities of approximately 200 stars in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 3201.
Alex Billi +9 more
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WOCS 4540: Detailed Analysis of a very Long Orbital Period Blue Straggler [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 WOCS 4540 is the longest orbital period ( P _orb = 3030 days) blue straggler star (BSS)—white dwarf (WD) pair in the old open cluster NGC 188. It also contains one of the most luminous BSS in the cluster.
Meng Sun, Robert D. Mathieu
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Variable Blue Straggler Stars in the Open Cluster NGC 6819 Observed in the Kepler “Superstamp” Field [PDF]
The Astronomical Journal, 2023 NGC 6819 is an open cluster of age 2.4 Gyr that was in the NASA Kepler spacecraft’s field of view from 2009 to 2013. The central part of the cluster was observed in a 200 × 200 pixel “superstamp” during these four years in 30 minute cadence photometry ...
Joyce A. Guzik +6 more
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GlobULeS. IV. UVIT/AstroSat Detection of Extremely Low Mass White Dwarf Companions to Blue Straggler Stars in NGC 362 [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 We report the discovery of extremely low mass white dwarfs (ELM WDs) as a companion of blue straggler stars (BSSs) in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 362 using images from AstroSat's Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT). Spectral energy distributions (
Arvind K. Dattatrey +6 more
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Blue Stragglers After the Main Sequence [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2008 We study the post-main sequence evolution of products of collisions between main sequence stars (blue stragglers), with particular interest paid to the horizontal branch and asymptotic giant branch phases.
Alison Sills +22 more
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Blue Straggler Formation in Clusters [PDF]
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2010 Blue stragglers are thought to be formed from the merger or coalescence of two stars, but the details of their formation in clusters has been difficult to disentangle.
Sills, Alison
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The Astronomical JournalWe identified blue straggler stars (BSSs) in 53 open clusters utilizing data from Gaia DR3. Most of these clusters are situated in the outer regions of the Galactic disk, encompassing structures such as the warp and the Outer arm.
Qian Cui +6 more
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Explaining the Praesepe blue straggler HD 73666 [PDF]
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2009 The blue straggler phenomenon is not yet well explained by current theory; however, evolutionary models of star clusters call for a good knowledge of it.
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