Dynamical age differences among coeval star clusters as revealed by blue stragglers

Nature

Volumn 492, Issue 7429, 2012, Pages 393-395

  Ferraro, F R ^a   Lanzoni, B ^a   Dalessandro, E ^a   Beccari, G ^b   Pasquato, M ^a   Miocchi, P ^a   Rood, R T ^c   Sigurdsson, S ^d   Sills, A ^e   Vesperini, E ^f   Mapelli, M ^g   Contreras, R ^a   Sanna, N ^a   Mucciarelli, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; CHRONOLOGY; COLLISION ZONE; COSMOLOGY; MASS TRANSFER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BLUE STRAGGLER STAR; GLOBULAR STAR CLUSTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84871420163     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11686     Document Type: Article

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