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Diagnosing the Stellar Population and Tidal Structure of the Blanco1 Star Cluster

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2020-02-12 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We present the stellar population, using {\it Gaia}\,DR2 parallax, kinematics, and photometry, of the young (100\sim 100~Myr), nearby (230\sim 230~pc) open cluster, Blanco1. A total of 644 member candidates are identified via the unsupervised machine learning method \textsc{StarGO} to find the clustering in the 5-dimensional position and proper motion parameter (XX, YY, ZZ, μαcosδ\mu_\alpha \cos\delta, μδ\mu_\delta) space. Within the tidal radius of 10.0±0.310.0 \pm 0.3~pc, there are 488 member candidates, 3 times more than those outside. A leading tail and a trailing tail, each of 50--60~pc in the Galactic plane, are found for the first time for this cluster, with stars further from the cluster center streaming away faster, manifest stellar stripping. Blanco1 has a total detected mass of 285±32285\pm32~M_\odot with a mass function consistent with a slope of α=1.35±0.2\alpha=1.35\pm0.2 in the sense of dN/dmmαdN/dm \propto m^{-\alpha}, in the mass range of 0.25--2.51~M_\odot , where NN is the number of members and mm is stellar mass. A Minimum Spanning Tree (ΛMSR\Lambda_{\rm MSR}) analysis shows the cluster to be moderately mass segregated among the most massive members (1.4\gtrsim 1.4~M_\odot), suggesting an early stage of dynamical disintegration.

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@article{arxiv.1912.06657,
  title  = {Diagnosing the Stellar Population and Tidal Structure of the Blanco1 Star Cluster},
  author = {Yu Zhang and Shih-Yun Tang and W. P. Chen and Xiaoying Pang and J. Z. Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.06657},
  year   = {2020}
}

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16 pages, 13 figures, accepted by ApJ