A panchromatic study of stellar populations in Galactic Globular Clusters

The aim of this Thesis is to investigate (i) how common the bimodal Blue Straggler Stars (BSS) radial distribution is in stellar clusters and (ii) which are the physical processes that can produce this bimodality. We discuss possible relations between the properties of the BSS radial distribution...

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Main Author: Dalessandro, Emanuele <1981>
Other Authors: Ferraro, Francesco Rosario
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:en
Published: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna 2009
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Online Access:http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/1730/