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Blue Straggler Stars in Galactic Globular Clusters: Tracing the Effect of Dynamics on Stellar Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2007

Francesco R. Ferraro  and
Barbara Lanzoni
Francesco R. Ferraro
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Via Ranzani 1, 40127 Bologna, Italy email: francesco.ferraro3@unibo.it – barbara.lanzoni@bo.astro.it
Barbara Lanzoni
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Via Ranzani 1, 40127 Bologna, Italy email: francesco.ferraro3@unibo.it – barbara.lanzoni@bo.astro.it
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Abstract

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In this contribution we review the main observational properties of Blue Stragglers Stars (BSS) in galactic GCs. A flower of results on the BSS frequency, radial distribution, and chemical composition are presented and discussed.

Keywords

globular clusters: generalstars: evolutionbinaries: generalblue stragglers

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