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The stellar populations in a stellar complex in NGC 6946 are analyzed on images taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. The complex is peculiar by its very high density of stars and clusters and…

I-band CCD images of two large regions of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 1261 have been used to construct stellar luminosity functions (LF) for 14000 stars in three annuli from 1.4' from the cluster center to the tidal radius. The LFs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Zoccali , G. Piotto , S. R. Zaggia , M. Capaccioli

Within the context of a large project aimed at studying early F-, A- and late B-type stars we present the abundance analysis of the photospheres of 21 members of the open cluster NGC 5460, an intermediate age cluster (logt ~ 8.2) previously…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 L. Fossati , C. P. Folsom , S. Bagnulo , J. H. Grunhut , O. Kochukhov , J. D. Landstreet , C. Paladini , G. A. Wade

In this work we perform the photometric analysis of the globular cluster system (GCS) of the giant elliptical NGC4696, which is the brightest member of Centaurus, a rich and dynamically young galaxy cluster. We obtained deep Magellan 6.5…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-25 S. Federle , M. Gómez , S. Mieske , W. E. Harris , M. Hilker , I. A. Yegorova , G. L. H. Harris

NGC 6791 is one of the richest old open clusters in the Milky Way. Its position above the Galactic plane and the number density makes it an interesting middle ground between Galactic open and globular clusters. We aim to detect the UV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Vikrant V. Jadhav , Annapurni Subramaniam , Ram Sagar

We present the first detailed study of the properties (temperatures, gravities, and masses) of the NGC 6791 white dwarf population. This unique stellar system is both one of the oldest (8 Gyr) and most metal-rich ([Fe/H] ~ 0.4) open…

A combined effort utilizing spectroscopy and photometry has revealed the existence of a new globular cluster class. These "anomalous" clusters, which we refer to as "iron-complex" clusters, are differentiated from normal clusters by…

We conducted a photometric and kinematic analysis of the young open cluster NGC 2345 using CCD \emph{UBV} data from 2-m Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT), \emph{Gaia} Data Release 3 (DR3), 2MASS, and the APASS datasets. We found 1732 most…

(Abridged) We present results from 13776 radial-velocity (RV) measurements of 1278 candidate members of the old (4 Gyr) open cluster M67 (NGC 2682). The measurements are the results of a long-term survey that includes data from seven…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Aaron M. Geller , David W. Latham , Robert D. Mathieu

We have measured the absolute proper motions of four low-latitude, inner-Galaxy globular clusters. These clusters are: NGC 6266 (M62), NGC 6304, NGC 6316 and NGC 6723. The proper motions are on the Hipparcos system, as no background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dana I. Dinescu , Terrence M. Girard , William F. van Altena , Carlos Lopez

The solar-age open cluster M67 (C0847+120, NGC2682) is a touchstone in studies of the old Galactic disk. Despite its outstanding role, the census of cluster membership for M67 at fainter magnitudes and their properties are not…

We present a study of compact star clusters in the nearby pair of interacting galaxies NGC 5194/95 (M51), based on multifilter Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 archival images. We have detected ~400 isolated clusters. Our requirement that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Myung Gyoon Lee , Rupali Chandar , Bradley C. Whitmore

Two sets of archive time series observations of an old open cluster NGC 6791 were re-analysed using an image subtraction technique. We report identification of four new variables. Proper motion data are available for three of them and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Janusz Kaluzny

We analyze spectra of 44 emission line stars detected in a low resolution optical spectroscopic survey of the galactic open cluster NGC 6871. The survey of 1217 stars is complete to V = 14.9 and includes stars with V < 16.5 between the zero…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Zoltan Balog , Scott J. Kenyon

We present radial velocity measurements for 74 globular clusters (GCs) in the nearby giant elliptical NGC 5128, of which 31 are newly discovered clusters. All the GC candidates were taken from the list of possible new clusters given in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kristin A. Woodley , William E. Harris , Gretchen L. H. Harris

Stellar distance is an important basic parameter in stellar astrophysics. Stars in a cluster are thought to be formed coevally from the same interstellar cloud of gas and dust. They are therefore expected to have common properties. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Tao Wu , Yan Li , Saskia Hekker

We present UBVRI photometry of stars in the field of the intermediate-age open cluster NGC 559. By determining the stellar membership probabilities derived through a photometric and kinematic study of the cluster, we identify the 22 most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Yogesh C. Joshi , L. A. Balona , Santosh Joshi , Brijesh Kumar

Galactic open clusters (OCs) that survive the early gas-expulsion phase are gradually destroyed over time by the action of disruptive dynamical processes. Their final evolutionary stages are characterized by a poorly populated concentration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-14 M. S. Angelo , J. F. C. Santos , W. J. B. Corradi , F. F. S. Maia , A. E. Piatti

NGC 7067 is a young open cluster located in the direction between the first and the second Galactic quadrants and close to the Perseus spiral arm. This makes it useful for studies of the nature of the Milky Way spiral arms. Stromgren…

The helium abundance of stars is a strong driver of evolutionary timescales, however it is difficult to measure in cool stars. We conduct an asteroseismic analysis of NGC 6791, an old, metal rich open cluster that previous studies have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Jean McKeever , Sarbani Basu , Enrico Corsaro