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...

Table of Contents:

• Field Blue Straggler Stars and Related Mass Transfer Issues
• Blue Stragglers Stars as Probe-Particles of Cluster Internal Dynamics. An Observational Prospective
• Blue Straggler Stars in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies: a Hard Quest
• Dynamical Evolution of Globular Clusters
• Binary Evolution: Wind Mass Transfer
• Binary Evolution: Roche Lobe Overflow
• Blue Straggler Formation in Open Clusters
• Formation Channels for Blue Straggler Stars
• The Multiple Origin of Blue Straggler Stars
• Interpretations of Observations – Individual Stellar Properties
• Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Clusters: Observations, Statistics and Physics
• Stellar Population Modeling Including BSS.