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A Thorough Exploration of the Metal-rich Massive Open Cluster NGC 6253: Focusing on Membership, Binaries, Stragglers, and Mass Function

The Astrophysical Journal
This study provides an in-depth analysis of the ancient open galactic cluster NGC 6253, characterized by the presence of both blue and yellow straggler stars.
Huanbin Chi, Feng Wang
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Data‐Driven Review and Machine Learning Prediction of Diamond Vacancy Center Synthesis

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A machine learning framework is applied to photoluminescence spectra to extract linewidths and uncover how NV, SiV, GeV, and SnV centers evolve with growth and processing conditions. Unified normalization and k‐fold validation reveal cross‐method trends and enable rapid prediction of defect size and fabrication parameters, offering a data‐driven route ...
Zhi Jiang, Marco Peres, Carlo Bradac, Gil Gonçalves   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Stars Collide

, 2007
When two stars collide and merge they form a new star that can stand out against the background population in a starcluster as a blue straggler. In so called collision runaways many stars can merge and may form a very massive star that eventually forms ...
Glebbeek, E., Pols, O. R.
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Blue straggler stars in galactic open clusters

, 2021
Blue straggler stars (BSS) were originally identified in the color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of the globular cluster M3, where they defined an extension of the cluster main sequence, blueward and above the turnoff (TO). Among the variety of objects that populate stellar clusters, BSS are surely between those still presenting many puzzles to astronomers ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Modular Electronic Microrobots With Onboard Sensor‐Program‐Steered Locomotion

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Modular electronic smartlet microrobots integrate ambient‐light energy harvesting, photodetection, programmable CMOS control, and bubble‐based actuation within a sub‐millimeter fold‐up architecture. A 58‐bit on‐board CMOS chiplet enables sensor–program steered switching between independently addressable actuators, achieving closed‐loop 2D navigation in
Vineeth K. Bandari, Yeji Lee, Pranathi Adluri, Daniil Karnaushenko, Dmitriy D. Karnaushenko, John S. McCaskill, Oliver G. Schmidt   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stellar Population Variations in the Milky Way's Stellar Halo [PDF]

, 2010
If the stellar halos of disk galaxies are built up from the disruption of dwarf galaxies, models predict highly structured variations in the stellar populations within these halos.
Abazajian, Bell, Belokurov, Belokurov, Belokurov, Blanton, Brown, Bullock, Bullock, Carney, Chou, Christine Ruhland, Cooper, David W. Hogg, de Jong, Dotter, Dotter, Duffau, Eric F. Bell, Font, Grillmair, Grillmair, Grillmair, Grillmair, Gunn, Gunn, Hans-Walter Rix, Hills, Hogg, Ibata, Ibata, Ibata, Ivezić, Jurić, Kazantzidis, Keller, Kinman, Law, Law, Lupton, Majewski, Martínez-Delgado, McCrea, Newberg, Newberg, Newberg, Niederste-Ostholt, Odenkirchen, Perets, Peñarrubia, Pier, Preston, Richardson, Robertson, Ruhland, Sirko, Smith, Stoughton, Strauss, Tumlinson, Wilhelm, Xiang Xiang Xue, Xue, Yanny   +63 more
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Imaging and Linking Spatial Magnetic Nanoparticle Distribution to Microbead Torques Using Soft X‐Ray Laminography

Advanced Physics Research, EarlyView.
Nanoscale 3D imaging of superparamagnetic microbeads via soft X‐ray laminography reveals the structural origin of the observed torques in cell movement experiments. These microbeads are found to have an uneven distribution of magnetic magnetite nanoparticles.
Findan Block, Finn Klingbeil, Dennis Seidler, Christine Arndt, Sandra Sindt, Katharina Witte, Benjamin Watts, Jörg Raabe, Christine Selhuber‐Unkel, Jeffrey McCord   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

k‐Selective Electrical‐to‐Magnon Transduction with Finite‐Element‐Resolved Sub‐Micron Nanoantennas

Advanced Physics Research, EarlyView.
We introduce a coupled finite‐element‐finite‐difference framework that links impedance‐matched nanoantenna geometries to propagating spin‐wave dynamics, capturing skin effects, proximity effects, and taper leakage beyond uniform‐current models. Applied to coplanar‐waveguide and stripline nanoantennas on yttrium‐iron‐garnet, the simulations achieve ...
Andreas Höfinger, Andrey A. Voronov, David Schmoll, Sabri Koraltan, Florian Bruckner, Claas Abert, Dieter Suess, Morris Lindner, Timmy Reimann, Carsten Dubs, Andrii V. Chumak, Sebastian Knauer   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting the Evidence for Double Sequences of Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Clusters

The Astronomical Journal
Blue straggler stars (BSSs) are believed to form through mass transfer in binary systems or stellar collisions. The reported presence of double BSS sequences in some globular clusters (GCs) has been interpreted as evidence that these two formation ...
Gourav Kumawat, Craig O. Heinke, Alison Sills, Haldan N. Cohn, Phyllis M. Lugger, Christian Knigge, Andrea Dieball, Tyler Heise   +7 more
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New parameters for star-cluster dynamics: Observational results

Astronomy & Astrophysics
We recently used a large set of Monte Carlo simulations of globular clusters (GCs) to define new, fully empirical parameters (named A51, P51, and S2.5) able to trace the internal dynamical evolution of dense stellar systems.
Lanzoni B., Ferraro F. R., Vesperini E.
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