2 papers
astro-ph2001
Stellar Collisions and the Interior Structure of Blue Stragglers
James C. Lombardi, Jessica Sawyer Warren, Frederic A. Rasio +2
Collisions of main sequence stars occur frequently in dense star clusters. In open and globular clusters, these collisions produce merger remnants that may be observed as blue stra…
astro-ph2000
Evolution of Stellar Collision Products in Globular Clusters - II. Off-axis Collision
Alison Sills, Joshua A. Faber, James C. Lombardi +2
We continue our exploration of collisionally merged stars in the blue straggler region of the color-magnitude diagram. We report the results of new SPH calculations of parabolic co…