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Hubble Space Telescope high-resolution observations of the central region of Galactic globular clusters have shown the presence of a large variety of exotic stellar objects whose formation and evolution may be strongly affected by dynamical interactions. In this paper I briefly describe the main properties of two classes of exotic objects: the so-called Blue Stragglers and the optical companions to Millisecond pulsar. Both these classes of objects are invaluable tools to investigate the evolution of binary systems in very dense environments and are powerful tracers of the dynamical history of the parent cluster.
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Ferraro, F.R. (2010). Exotic Populations in Galactic Globular Clusters. In: Macchetto, F. (eds) The Impact of HST on European Astronomy. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3400-7_10
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