Bibcode
Liu, G. Q.; Deng, L.; Chávez, M.; Bertone, E.; Davo, A. Herrero; Mata-Chávez, M. D.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 390, Issue 2, pp. 665-674.
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2008
Citations
16
Refereed citations
14
Description
Based on spectrophotometric observations from the Guillermo Haro
Observatory (Cananea, Mexico), a study of the spectral properties of the
complete sample of 24 blue straggler stars (BSs) in the old Galactic
open cluster M67 (NGC 2682) is presented. All spectra, calibrated using
spectral standards, were recalibrated by means of photometric magnitudes
in the Beijing-Arizona-Taipei-Connecticut system, which includes fluxes
in 11 bands covering ~3500-10000 Å. The set of parameters was
obtained using two complementary approaches that rely on a comparison of
the spectra with (i) an empirical sample of stars with well-established
spectral types and (ii) a theoretical grid of optical spectra computed
at both low and high resolution. The overall results indicate that the
BSs in M67 span a wide range in Teff(~ 5600 -12600 K) and
surface gravities that are fully compatible with those expected for
main-sequence objects (log g = 3.5 -5.0 dex).