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The effect of massive binaries on stellar populations and supernova progenitors
John J. Eldridge, Robert G. Izzard, Christopher A. Tout
We compare our latest single and binary stellar model results from the Cambridge STARS code to several sets of observations. We examine four stellar population ratios, the number o…
astro-ph2007
When Stars Collide
E. Glebbeek, O. R. Pols
When two stars collide and merge they form a new star that can stand out against the background population in a starcluster as a blue straggler. In so called collision runaways man…
astro-ph2007
Building Blue Stragglers with Stellar Collisions
E. Glebbeek, O. R. Pols
The evolution of stellar collision products in cluster simulations has usually been modelled using simplified prescriptions. Such prescriptions either replace the collision product…