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Nonequilibrium relaxation of a trapped particle in a near-critical Gaussian field
Davide Venturelli, Francesco Ferraro, Andrea Gambassi
We study the non-equilibrium relaxational dynamics of a probe particle linearly coupled to a thermally fluctuating scalar field and subject to a harmonic potential, which provides…
Exotic populations in Globular Clusters: Blue Stragglers as tracers of the internal dynamical evolution of stellar systems
Francesco R. Ferraro
In this paper I present an overview of the main observational properties of a special class of exotic objects (the so-called Blue Straggler Stars, BSSs) in Galactic Globular Cluste…
Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Clusters: a powerful tool to probe the internal dynamical evolution of stellar systems
Francesco R. Ferraro, Barbara Lanzoni, Emanuele Dalessandro +2
This chapter presents an overview of the main observational results obtained to date about Blue Straggler Stars (BSSs) in Galactic Globular Clusters (GCs). The BSS specific frequen…
The fraction of binary systems in the core of five Galactic open clusters
A. Sollima, J. A. Carballo-Bello, G. Beccari +3
We used deep wide field photometric observations to derive the fraction of binary systems in a sample of five high-latitude Galactic open clusters. By analysing the color distribut…
The First Empirical Mass Loss Law for Population II Giants
Livia Origlia, Robert T. Rood, Sara Fabbri +3
Using the Spitzer IRAC camera we have obtained mid-IR photometry of the red giant branch stars in the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tuc. About 100 stars show an excess of mid-infrar…
The fraction of binary systems in the core of thirteen low-density Galactic globular clusters
A. Sollima, G. Beccari, F. R. Ferraro +2
We used deep observations collected with ACS@HST to derive the fraction of binary systems in a sample of thirteen low-density Galactic globular clusters. By analysing the color dis…