Blue Stragglers After the Main Sequence

Sills, A.; Karakas, Amanda; Lattanzio, John

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Blue Stragglers After the Main Sequence

Date

2009

Authors

Sills, A.

Karakas, Amanda

Lattanzio, John

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We study the post-main-sequence evolution of products of collisions between main-sequence stars (blue stragglers), with particular interest paid to the horizontal branch and asymptotic giant branch phases. We found that the blue straggler progeny populate