Mock Observations of Blue Stragglers in Globular Cluster Models
  We created artificial color-magnitude diagrams of Monte Carlo dynamical
models of globular clusters, and then used observational methods to determine
the number of blue stragglers in those clusters. We compared these blue
stragglers to various cluster properties, mimicking work that has been done for
blue stragglers in Milky Way globular clusters to determine the dominant
formation mechanism(s) of this unusual stellar population. We find that a
mass-based prescription for selecting blue stragglers will choose approximately
twice as many blue stragglers than a selection criterion that was developed for
observations of real clusters. However, the two numbers of blue stragglers are
well-correlated, so either selection criterion can be used to characterize the
blue straggler population of a cluster. We confirm previous results that the
simplified prescription for the evolution of a collision or merger product in
the BSE code overestimates their lifetimes. We show that our model blue
stragglers follow similar trends with cluster properties (core mass, binary
fraction, total mass, collision rate) as the true Milky Way blue stragglers, as
long as we restrict ourselves to model clusters with an initial binary fraction
higher than 5%. We also show that, in contrast to earlier work, the number of
blue stragglers in the cluster core does have a weak dependence on the
collisional parameter Gamma in both our models and in Milky Way globular
clusters.
