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Blue Straggler Stars in Old Open Clusters and the Kraft Break

  • Authors: Evan Linck, Robert D. Mathieu

Evan Linck and Robert D. Mathieu 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1005 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

We show the Teff–﹩v\sin i﹩ distribution of BSSs in open clusters (upper panel, in red, from Figure 2) and low-density globular clusters (lower panel, in blue). Like in Figure 3, using MIST evolutionary tracks, we calculated the equatorial velocity for stars that are halfway through their main-sequence lifetimes at a specific Teff with rotational periods of 2 and 4 days, and plot these with dashed lines. We further show the BSS Kraft break at solar metallicity (red area) in the upper panel and the best-fit Teff with errors (blue line) that demarcates a transition of the globular cluster BSS rotation distribution in the lower panel.

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