The Ages of Stars: The Horizontal Branch

preprint2008arXivOpen access

Abstract

Horizontal branch (HB) stars play a particularly important role in the "age debate," since they are at the very center of the long-standing "second parameter" problem. In this review, I discuss some recent progress in our understanding of the nature and origin of HB stars.

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