Cosmos:elementary | Blue Stragglers - a stellar anomaly. What are they? @Cosmos_elementary | Uploaded January 2020 | Updated October 2024, 25 minutes ago.
Blue stragglers. Anomalous blue stars in stellar clusters that contradict our basic understanding of how clusters evolve. What’s so strange about them and how they might have formed?

Source materials:
Open clusters:
messier.seds.org/open.html
Age of Pleiades
messier.seds.org/m/m045.html
Globular clusters database
messier.seds.org/xtra/supp/mw_gc.html
Age of HP 1
academic.oup.com/mnras/article/484/4/5530/5274132
Age of Omega Centauri:
spacetelescope.org/images/heic0910g
Stellar evolution
jb.man.ac.uk/distance/exploring/course/strobel/evolutn/evolutna.htm
http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit2/mainseq.html
How cluster may capture gas
nature.com/articles/nature16493?draft=collection
Blue stragglers migration towards the center of clusters
spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1915a
Formation models
arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0501142.pdf
Binary blue stragglers
aasnova.org/2019/05/31/building-a-pair-of-blue-stragglers
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab1b75
A Correlation between Blue Straggler and Binary Fractions
arxiv.org/pdf/0801.4511.pdf
Blue stragglers:
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/B/Blue+Stragglers
http://www.cosmic-lab.eu/Cosmic-Lab/blue_stragglers.html
Some history of blue stragglers studies
arxiv.org/pdf/1406.3463.pdf
Mass transfer
https://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2011/10/blue-stragglers.html
arxiv.org/pdf/1110.3793.pdf
Clusters CMD
community.dur.ac.uk/ian.smail/gcCm/gcCm_intro.html
47 tucanae
arxiv.org/pdf/1609.02115.pdf