UOCS. IV. Discovery of diverse hot companions to blue stragglers in the old open cluster King 2

King 2, one of the oldest clusters in the Milky Way, with an age of ∼ 6 Gyr and distance of ∼ 5700 pc, has been observed with UVIT payload on the AstroSat. With membership information derived from Gaia EDR3, the cluster is found to have 39 blue straggler stars (BSSs). We created multi-wavelength spe...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of astrophysics and astronomy 2021-10, Vol.42 (2), Article 89
Hauptverfasser:	Jadhav, Vikrant V., Pandey, Sindhu, Subramaniam, Annapurni, Sagar, Ram
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Astronomy Astrophysics and Astroparticles AstroSat: Five Years in Orbit Globular clusters Horizontal branch stars Luminosity Milky Way Observations and Techniques Open clusters Physics Physics and Astronomy Science Results Subdwarf stars
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