SPH Calculations of Collisions between Main-Sequence Stars
Abstract
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The hydrodynamics of collisions and mergers of main-sequence stars is discussed in the light of recent 3-D calculations using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method. Theoretical models for the formation of blue stragglers are reviewed in the context of recent comparisons between the observed properties of blue stragglers in dense globular clusters and the predictions of those models.
uuencoded compressed postscript, 10 pages including one figure. To appear in IAU Symposium 174, Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters, eds. P. Hut and J. Makino. Also available from http://ensor.mit.edu/~rasio/
uuencoded compressed postscript, 10 pages including one figure. To appear in IAU Symposium 174, Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters, eds. P. Hut and J. Makino. Also available from http://ensor.mit.edu/~rasio/