FAST ROTATING BLUE STRAGGLERS PREFER LOOSE CLUSTERS

Fast rotating blue stragglers prefer loose clusters

Abstract Blue stragglers are anomalously luminous core hydrogen-burning stars formed through mass-transfer in binary/triple systems and stellar collisions.Their physical and evolutionary properties are largely unknown and unconstrained.Here we analyze 320 high-resolution spectra of blue stragglers collected in eight galactic globular clusters with

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