Relative frequencies of blue stragglers in galactic globular clusters: Constraints for the formation mechanisms

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 604, Issue 2 II, 2004, Pages

  Piotto, Giampaolo ^a   De Angeli, Francesca ^a   King, Ivan R ^b   Djorgovski, S G ^c   Bono, Giuseppe ^d   Cassisi, Santi ^e   Meylan, Georges ^f   Recio Blanco, Alejandra ^a   Rich, R M ^g   Davies, Melvyn B ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI COLLURANIA   (Italy)

^f STScI   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blue stragglers; Globular clusters: general; Hertzsprung Russell diagram; Stars: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 2642571540     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/383617     Document Type: Article

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