Blue Stragglers in Low-Mass Globular Clusters

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Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004aas...205.2308s&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 205, #23.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.1382

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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We present a tabulation of over 200 blue straggler stars for 11 low-mass (MV,total > -6) Milky Way globular clusters that extends the results of Piotto et al. (2004) for massive clusters. The relative frequencies of blue stragglers (FBSS = NBSS / NHB) appears to continue to increase with decreasing cluster luminosity down to the least luminous clusters in the Milky Way. For the faintest clusters in the sample, the relative frequency is approximately equal to that for field stars. We will also discuss the luminosity function of the total straggler sample for these clusters.
This work has been funded through grant AST 00-98696 from the National Science Foundation.

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