Building Blue Stragglers with Stellar Collisions

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2007-10-09

arxiv.org/abs/0710.1730v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

2 pages, 1 figure. To appear in the proceedings of Dynamical Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems, IAU Symposium 246

Scientific paper

10.1017/S1743921308015950

The evolution of stellar collision products in cluster simulations has usually been modelled using simplified prescriptions. Such prescriptions either replace the collision product with an (evolved) main sequence star, or assume that the collision product was completely mixed during the collision. It is known from hydrodynamical simulations of stellar collisions that collision products are not completely mixed, however. We have calculated the evolution of stellar collision products and find that they are brighter than normal main sequence stars of the same mass, but not as blue as models that assume that the collision product was fully mixed during the collision.

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