Blue straggler main sequence (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Blue stragglers(BSS) are main sequence stars in open or globular clusters that are moreluminous and bluer than stars at the main sequence turn-off point forthe cluster. Blue stragglers were first discovered by Allan Sandage in1953 while performing photometry of the stars in the globular clusterM3. Standard theories of stellar evolution hold that the position of astar on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram should be determined almostentirely by the initial mass of the star and its age. In a clusterstars all formed at approximately the same time, and thus in an H-Rdiagram for a cluster, all stars should lie along a clearly definedcurve set by the age of the cluster, with the positions of individualstars on that curve determined solely by their initial mass.…