Blue Stragglers, Be stars and X-ray binaries in open clusters

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2005-12-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512488v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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7 pages, to appear in "Active OB Stars: Laboratories for Stellar & Circumstellar Physics", eds. S. Stefl, S. P. Owocki & A. Ok

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Combination of high-precision photometry and spectroscopy allows the detailed study of the upper main sequence in open clusters. We are carrying out a comprehensive study of a number of clusters containing Be stars in order to evaluate the likelihood that a significant number of Be stars form through mass exchange in a binary. Our first results show that most young open clusters contain blue stragglers. In spite of the small number of clusters so far analysed, some trends are beginning to emerge. In younger open clusters, such as NGC 869 and NGC 663, there are many blue stragglers, most of which are not Be stars. In older clusters, such as IC 4725, the fraction of Be stars among blue stragglers is very high. Two Be blue stragglers are moderately strong X-ray sources, one of them being a confirmed X-ray binary. Such objects must have formed through binary evolution. We discuss the contribution of mass transfer in a close binary to the formation of both blue stragglers and Be stars

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