Stellar Collisions and the Interior Structure of Blue Stragglers
Stellar Collisions and the Interior Structure of Blue Stragglers
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 stragglers. Detailed theoretical models of this process require lengthy hydrodynamic computations in three dimensions. However, a less computationally expensive approach, which we present here, …