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Discovery of Carbon/Oxygen depleted Blue Straggler Stars in 47 Tucanae: the chemical signature of a mass-transfer formation process

Abstract

We use high-resolution spectra obtained with the ESO Very Large Telescope to measure surface abundance patterns of 43 Blue Stragglers stars (BSS) in 47 Tuc.

Authors

Ferraro FR; Sabbi E; Gratton R; Piotto G; Lanzoni B; Carretta E; Rood RT; Sills A; Pecci FF; Moehler S

Publication date

October 3, 2006

DOI

10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0610081

Preprint server

arXiv