The first detection of blue straggler stars in the Milky Way bulge

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 735, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Clarkson, W I ^a,f   Sahu, Kailash C ^b   Anderson, Jay ^b   Rich, R Michael ^a   Smith, T Ed ^b   Brown, Thomas M ^b   Bond, Howard E ^b   Livio, Mario ^b   Minniti, Dante ^c,d   Renzini, Alvio ^e   Zoccali, Manuela ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STScI   (United States)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d VATICAN OBSERVATORY   (Italy)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

binaries: close; blue stragglers; Galaxy: bulge; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: stellar content; Galaxy: structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959937199     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/735/1/37     Document Type: Article

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