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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.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Astronomy, space & time Theoretical & mathematical astronomy

• Full title: Ecology of Blue Straggler Stars
• Author: Giacomo Beccari, Henri M. J. Boffin, Giovanni Carraro
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 349
• EAN: 9783662512746
• ISBN: 3662512742
• ID: 13671677
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
• Weight: 5621 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. August 2016

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