Ecology of Blue Straggler Stars

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Boffin, Henri M. J. (Editor), Carraro, Giovanni (Editor), Beccari, Giacomo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 413
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

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 globul...