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most citedBlue Straggler Stars in Open Clusters using Gaia: Dependence on Cluster Parameters and Possible Formation Pathways

56 citations · 396 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Star Clusters in the Ultraviolet

Annapurni Subramaniam, Samyaday Choudhury, Richard de Grijs +5

Ultraviolet (UV) observations provide a powerful window into the hot and evolved stellar populations that shape the structure, evolution and integrated light of star clusters. Beca…

astro-ph.SR2026★ 2 cited

A rotation-based census of blue lurker candidates in open clusters

Vikrant V. Jadhav, Khushboo K. Rao, Elisabetta Reggiani

Blue lurkers (BLs) are rejuvenated main-sequence stars hidden among normal main-sequence stars on color-magnitude diagrams of star clusters. In comparison, the blue straggler stars…

astro-ph.GA2025

Tidal Tails and Their Dynamics in Open Clusters Using Gaia DR3

Ira Sharma, Vikrant V. Jadhav, Annapurni Subramaniam

This research presents unsupervised machine learning and statistical techniques to detect and analyze tidal tails in five open clusters, BH 164, Alessi 2, NGC 2281, NGC 2354, and M…

astro-ph.SR2024

Discovery of a barium blue straggler star in M67 and sighting of its WD companion*

Harshit Pal, Annapurni Subramaniam, Arumalla B. S. Reddy +1

We report the discovery of a barium blue straggler star (BSS) in M67, exhibiting enhancements in slow neutron-capture (-) process elements. Spectroscopic analysis of two BSSs (W…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 10 cited

UOCS. XIV. Uncovering extremely low mass white dwarfs and blue lurkers in NGC 752

Vikrant V. Jadhav, Annapurni Subramaniam, Ram Sagar

Evolutionary pathways of binary systems are vastly different from single stellar evolution, and thus, there is a need to quantify their frequency and diversity. Open clusters are t…

astro-ph.SR2023

UOCS-XI. Study of blue straggler stars in open cluster NGC 7142 using UVIT/AstroSat

Anju Panthi, Kaushar Vaidya, Nagaraj Vernekar +3

We present a study of blue straggler stars (BSSs) of open cluster NGC 7142 using AstroSat/UVIT data and other archival data. Using a machine learning-based algorithm, ML-MOC, on Ga…