Ecology of Blue Straggler Stars
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Beschreibung
The existence of blue straggler stars, which appear younger, hotter, and more massive than their siblings, is at odds with a simple picture of stellar evolution. Such stars should have exhausted their nuclear fuel and evolved long ago to become cooling white dwarfs. They are found to exist in globular clusters, open clusters, dwarf spheroidal galaxies of the Local Group, OB associations and as field stars.
This book summarises the many advances in observational and theoretical work dedicated to blue straggler stars. Carefully edited extended contributions by well-known experts in the field cover all the relevant aspects of blue straggler stars research: Observations of blue straggler stars in their various environments; Binary stars and formation channels; Dynamics of globular clusters; Interpretation of observational data and comparison with models. The book also offers an introductory chapter on stellar evolution written by the editors of the book.
The existence of blue straggler stars, which appear younger, hotter, and more massive than their siblings, is at odds with a simple picture of stellar evolution. Such stars should have exhausted their nuclear fuel and evolved long ago to become cooling white dwarfs. They are found to exist in globular clusters, open clusters, dwarf spheroidal galaxies of the Local Group, OB associations and as field stars.
This book summarises the many advances in observational and theoretical work dedicated to blue straggler stars. Carefully edited extended contributions by well-known experts in the field cover all the relevant aspects of blue straggler stars research: Observations of blue straggler stars in their various environments; Binary stars and formation channels; Dynamics of globular clusters; Interpretation of observational data and comparison with models. The book also offers an introductory chapter on stellar evolution written by the editors of the book.
Presents all the relevant aspects of blue straggler stars research including recent observations and theoretical models Carefully edited extended contributions by well-known experts in blue straggler stars research Identifies many open questions in our understanding of blue straggler stars and defines new research avenues addressing these
Autor*in
Henri M. J. Boffin
Themen in »Ecology of Blue Straggler Stars«
Blue Straggler Formation Blue Straggler Stars Overview Dwarf Galaxies Stellar Population Dynamical Evolution of Globular Clusters Dynamics of Stellar Clusters Evolution of Binary Stars Stellar Evolution Introduction Stellar Population Modeling
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“The book is definitely to be welcomed as a much-needed contribution to the study of stellar physics. It should be in every departmental library.” (Elizabeth Griffin, The Observatory, Vol. 135 (1249), December, 2015)
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