Formation Channels for Blue Straggler Stars [PDF]
, 2014 In this chapter we consider two formation channels for blue straggler stars: 1) the merger of two single stars via a collision, and 2) those produced via mass transfer within a binary. We review how computer simulations show that stellar collisions are likely to lead to relatively little mass loss and are thus effective in producing a young population ...
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Explaining the Praesepe blue straggler HD 73666 [PDF]
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2009 Accepted for publication on Astronomy and ...
L. Fossati +3 more
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Multiple stellar populations and their influence on blue stragglers [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2010 10 pages, 7 figures, 6 tables Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 15 June ...
E. Glebbeek +2 more
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An unexpected detection of bifurcated blue straggler sequences in the young globular cluster NGC 2173 [PDF]
, 2018 Bifurcated patterns of blue straggler stars in their color--magnitude diagrams have atracted significant attention. This type of special (but rare) pattern of two distinct blue straggler sequences is commonly interpreted as evidence of cluster core-collapse-driven stellar collisions as an efficient formation mechanism.
Chengyuan Li +4 more
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FAST ROTATING BLUE STRAGGLERS IN THE GLOBULAR CLUSTER M4 [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2010 16 pages, 4 figures, ApJL ...
L. Lovisi +11 more
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The new detection of blue straggler stars in 50 open clusters using Gaia DR3 [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 The particularly abundant presence of blue straggler stars (BSS) in Galactic open clusters offers favorable conditions for detailed studies on the statistical properties and the origin of the blue straggler population.
Chunyan Li +3 more
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UOCS-XI. Study of blue straggler stars in open cluster NGC 7142 using UVIT/AstroSat [PDF]
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023 We present a study of blue straggler stars (BSSs) of open cluster NGC 7142 using AstroSat/UVIT data and other archival data. Using a machine learning-based algorithm, ML-MOC, on Gaia DR3 data, we find 546 sources as cluster members.
Anju Panthi +5 more
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Field blue straggler stars: Discovery of white dwarf companions to blue metal-poor stars using UVIT/AstroSat [PDF]
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023 Blue metal-poor (BMP) stars are the main-sequence stars that appear bluer and more luminous than normal turn-off stars of metal-poor globular clusters.
Anju Panthi +6 more
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Could the number of blue straggler stars help to determine the age of their parent globular cluster? [PDF]
SCIREA Journal of Astronomy, 2023 A recent study shows, from an empirical deduction, that the number and the presence of the blue straggler stars (BSS) in an open cluster follow a function whose components are the ratio between age and the relaxation time, $\it f$, and a factor, $\varpi$
F. L. D. Andr'es
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Photometric variability of blue straggler stars in M67 with TESS and K2 [PDF]
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023 Blue straggler stars (BSSs) are formed through mass transfers or mergers in binaries. The recent detections of white dwarf (WD) companions to BSSs in M67 suggested a mass transfer pathway of formation. In search of a close companion to five BSSs in M67
Nagaraj Vernekar +3 more
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