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Title: | Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Clusters: A Powerful Tool to Probe the Internal Dynamical Evolution of Stellar Systems | Authors: | Ferraro, Francesco R. Lanzoni, Barbara Dalessandro, Emanuele Mucciarelli, Alessio Lovisi, Loredana |
Issue Date: | 2015 | Volume: | Ecology of Blue Straggler Stars | Series: | ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY | Number: | 413 | First Page: | 99 | Abstract: | This chapter presents an overview of the main observational results obtained to date about Blue Straggler Stars (BSSs) in Galactic Globular Clusters (GCs). The BSS specific frequency, radial distribution, chemical composition and rotational properties are presented and discussed in the framework of using this stellar population as probe of GC internal dynamics. In particular, the shape of the BSS radial distribution has been found to be a powerful tracer of the dynamical age of stellar systems, thus allowing the definition of the first empirical "dynamical clock". | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/24105 | URL: | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-662-44434-4_5 https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.3471 |
ISBN: | 978-3-662-44433-7 | DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-662-44434-4_5 | Bibcode ADS: | 2015ASSL..413...99F | Fulltext: | open |
Appears in Collections: | 2.01 Capitoli o saggi in libro |
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