Characterizing Blue Straggler Star Populations in Globular Clusters\n using HST Photometric Survey Data

2015/10/02 by Mirko Simunovic, Thomas H. Puzia, Simunovic, Mirko +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) #FOS: Physical sciences #Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1510.00662

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Abstract

We present early results from a detailed analysis of the BSS population in\nGalactic GCs based on HST data.Using proper motion cleaning of the\ncolor-magnitude diagrams we construct a large catalog of BSSs and study some\npopulation properties.Stellar evolutionary models are used to find stellar mass\nand age estimates for the BSS populations in order to establish constraints\nrelated to the dynamical interactions in which they may have formed.\n

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