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Exotic populations in Galactic Globular Clusters

Astrophysics 2016-08-30 v1

Abstract

Recent high-resolution observations of the central region of Galactic globular clusters have shown the presence of a large variety of exotic stellar objects whose formation and evolution may be strongly affected by dynamical interactions. In this paper I review the main properties of two classes of exotic objects: the so-called Blue Stragglers stars and the recently identified optical companions to Millisecond pulsar. Both these class of objects are invaluable tools to investigate the binary evolution in very dense environments and are powerful tracers of the dynamical history of the parent cluster.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0601217,
  title  = {Exotic populations in Galactic Globular Clusters},
  author = {Francesco R. Ferraro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0601217},
  year   = {2016}
}

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36 pages, 26 figures, invited review in "Resolved Stellar Populations" 2005, Cancun, Mexico