The Ages of Stars: The Horizontal Branch
Astrophysics
2015-05-13 v2
Abstract
Horizontal branch (HB) stars play a particularly important role in the "age debate," since they are at the very center of the long-standing "second parameter" problem. In this review, I discuss some recent progress in our understanding of the nature and origin of HB stars.
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@article{arxiv.0811.2947,
title = {The Ages of Stars: The Horizontal Branch},
author = {M. Catelan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.2947},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
10 pages, 8 figures. Invited review, to appear in "The Ages of Stars", proceedings of IAU Symp. 258