Metal-poor Field Blue Stragglers: More Evidence for Mass Transfer

Abstract

We report radial velocity studies of five candidate metal-poor field blue stragglers, all known to be deficient in lithium. Four of the five stars are single-lined spectroscopic binaries, with periods ranging from 302 to 840 days, and low orbital eccentricities, in agreement with similar behavior found for other blue straggler candidates by Preston & Sneden (2000) and Carney et al. (2001). The limited data available for lithium abundances indicate that all blue straggler candidates have depleted lithium abundances. Our results show higher values of v(rot) sin i for the binary stars than comparable temperature constant-velocity stars. The orbital periods are too long for tidal effects to now be important, implying that spin-up during mass transfer when the orbital separations and periods were smaller is that cause of the enhanced rotation.

To appear in Astronomical Journal (January 2005 issue)

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