Blue Straggler Stars: Early Observations that Failed to Solve the Problem
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2015-06-22 v1
Abstract
In this chapter, I describe early ideas on blue stragglers, and various observations (some published, some not) that promised but failed to resolve the question of their origin. I review the data and ideas that were circulating from Allan Sandage's original discovery in 1953 of "anomalous blue stars" in the globular cluster M3, up until about 1992, when what seems to have been the only previous meeting devoted to Blue Straggler Stars (BSSs) was held at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1406.3463,
title = {Blue Straggler Stars: Early Observations that Failed to Solve the Problem},
author = {Russel D. Cannon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.3463},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Chapter 2, in Ecology of Blue Straggler Stars, H.M.J. Boffin, G. Carraro & G. Beccari (Eds), Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Springer