Explaining the Praesepe blue straggler HD 73666
arXiv:0911.1874 · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/200811495
Abstract
The blue straggler phenomenon is not yet well explained by current theory; however, evolutionary models of star clusters call for a good knowledge of it. Here we try to understand the possible formation scenario of HD 73666, a blue straggler member of the Praesepe cluster. We compile the known physical properties of HD 73666 found in the literature, focusing in particular on possible binarity and the abundance pattern. HD 73666 appears to be slowly rotating, has no detectable magnetic field, and has normal abundances, thereby excluding close binary evolution and mass transfer processes. There is no evidence of a hot radiation source. With the use of theoretical results on blue straggler formation present in literature, we are able to conclude that HD 73666 was probably formed by physical collision involving at least one binary system, between 5 and 350 Myr (50 Myr if the star is an intrinsic slow rotator) ago.
Accepted for publication on Astronomy and Astrophysics
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