Modeling the radial distribution of blue stragglers in M3
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Modeling the radial distribution of blue stragglers in M 3
Recent surveys of the blue straggler (BS) population in the galactic globular cluster M3 (NGC 5272) give the rst complete characterization of the number density of BSs as a function of radius over an entire globular cluster. The BSs in M3 are overabundant at large radii, and signiicantly underabundant at intermediate radii. Here we present the result of a simulation of the dynamical evolution o...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Astrophysical Journal
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0004-637X,1538-4357
DOI: 10.1086/187486