R. T. Rood
University of Virginia
33 Papers
358 Citations
R. T. Rood is an academic researcher from University of Virginia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Globular cluster & Blue straggler. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 33 publications.
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Papers
Dynamical age differences among coeval star clusters as revealed by blue stragglers
Francesco R. Ferraro,Barbara Lanzoni,Emanuele Dalessandro,Giacomo Beccari,Mario Pasquato,Paolo Miocchi,R. T. Rood,Steinn Sigurdsson,Alison Sills,Enrico Vesperini,Michela Mapelli,R. Contreras,Nicoletta Sanna,Alessio Mucciarelli +13 more
TL;DR: It is reported that globular clusters can be grouped into a few distinct families on the basis of the radial distribution of blue stragglers, corresponding well to an effective ranking of the dynamical stage reached by stellar systems, thereby permitting a direct measure of the cluster dynamical age purely from observed properties.
The Pure Noncollisional Blue Straggler Population in the Giant Stellar System ω Centauri
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used high spatial resolution data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and wide-field ground-based observations to search for blue straggler stars (BSSs) over the entire radial extent of the large stellar system? Centauri.
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Another Nonsegregated Blue Straggler Population in a Globular Cluster: the Case of NGC 2419
Emanuele Dalessandro,Barbara Lanzoni,Francesco R. Ferraro,Francesco Vespe,Michele Bellazzini,R. T. Rood +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, a combination of ACS HST high-resolution and wide-field Subaru data was used to study the blue straggler star (BSS) population over the entire extension of the remote Galactic globular cluster NGC 2419.
The pure non-collisional Blue Straggler population in the giant stellar system omega Centauri
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used high-resolution data from the Hubble Space Telescope and wide-field ground-based observations to search for blue straggler stars (BSS) over the entire radial extent of the large stellar system omega Centauri.
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Deep HST-WFPC2 photometry of NGC 288. I. Binary Systems and Blue Stragglers
TL;DR: In this article, the first results of a deep WFPC2 photometric survey of the loose galactic globular cluster NGC 288 were presented, where the fraction of binary systems is estimated from the color distribution of objects near the Main Sequence (MS) with a method analogous to that introduced by Rubenstein & Bailyn(1997).
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