Blue Stragglers After the Main Sequence

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2008-11-18

arxiv.org/abs/0811.2974v1

Astrophys.J.692:1411-1420,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted by the Astrophysical Journal

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10.1088/0004-637X/692/2/1411

We study the post-main sequence evolution of products of collisions between main sequence stars (blue stragglers), with particular interest paid to the horizontal branch and asymptotic giant branch phases. We found that the blue straggler progeny populate the colour-magnitude diagram slightly blueward of the red giant branch and between 0.2 and 1 magnitudes brighter than the horizontal branch. We also found that the lifetimes of collision products on the horizontal branch is consistent with the numbers of so-called "evolved blue straggler stars" (E-BSS) identified by various authors in a number of globular clusters, and is almost independent of mass or initial composition profile. The observed ratio of the number of E-BSS to blue stragglers points to a main sequence lifetime for blue stragglers of approximately 1-2 Gyr on average.

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