Cambridge University Press (CUP), Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, S246(3), p. 369-370, 2007
DOI: 10.1017/s1743921308015986
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 1(483), p. 183-197, 2008
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20078416
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AbstractBlue stragglers stars (BSS) constitute an ubiquitous population of objects whose origin involves both dynamical and stellar evolution. We took advantage of the homogeneous sample of 56 Galactic globular clusters observed with WFPC2/HST by Piotto et al. (2002) to investigate the environmental dependence of the BSS formation mechanisms. We explore possible monovariate relations between the frequency of BSS (divided in different subsamples according to their location with respect to the parent cluster core radius and half mass radius) and the main parameters of their host GC. We also performed a Principal Component Analysis to extract the main parent cluster parameters which characterise the BSS family.