Description
We have surveyed the blue straggler star population of the Galactic globular cluster M5 using high-resolution images of the core along with wide-field ground-based images reaching to more than 19 core radii. To gauge M5's relative efficiency of producing stragglers, we compared our sample to five studies of other globular clusters. Using a bright sample selected in the same way as that of Ferraro and coworkers (Ferraro et al., 1993AJ....106.2324F, 1997, Cat. <J/A+A/320/757>, Cat. <J/A+A/324/915>) we found a bimodal radial distribution similar to those found in three other luminous clusters.
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