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Optical UBVRI photometric measurements using the Faulkes Telescope North were taken in early 2011 and combined with 2MASS JHK$_s$ and WISE infrared photometry as well as UCAC4 proper motion data in order to estimate the main parameters of…

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The morphology of clusters of galaxies may be described with a set of parameters which contain information about the formation and evolutionary history of these systems. In this paper we present a preliminary study of the morphological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Strazzullo , M. Paolillo , G. Longo , E. Puddu , S. G. Djorgovski , R. R. De Carvalho , R. R. Gal

In order to understand the Galactic structure, we perform a statistical analysis of the distribution of various cluster parameters based on an almost complete sample of Galactic open clusters yet available. The geometrical and physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 Y. C. Joshi

Context. Open clusters provide valuable information on stellar nucleosynthesis and the chemical evolution of the Galactic disc, as their age and distances can be measured more precisely with photometry than for field stars. Aims. Our aim is…

The stellar [$\alpha$/Fe] abundance is sometimes used as a proxy for stellar age, following standard chemical evolution models for the Galaxy, as seen by different observational results. In this work we show that the Open Cluster…

We derive photometric, structural and dynamical evolution-related parameters of 11 nearby open clusters with ages in the range 70 Myr to 7 Gyr and masses in the range $\approx400$ \ms to $\approx5 300$ \ms. We search for relations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Charles Bonatto , Eduardo Bica

We propose a mixture model of open clusters (OCs) in the color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) to measure the OC properties, including isochrone parameters (age, distance, metallicity, and dust extinction), stellar mass function (MF), and binary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-18 Lu Li , Zhengyi Shao

Base on Gaia Second Data Release and the combination of nonparametric bivariate density estimation with the least square ellipse fitting, we derive the shape parameters of the sample clusters. By analyzing the dislocation of the sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Qingshun Hu , Yu Zhang , Ali Esamdin

Stars in an open cluster are assumed to have formed from a broadly homogeneous distribution of gas, implying that they should be chemically homogeneous. Quantifying the level to which open clusters are chemically homogeneous can therefore…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-05 Amaya Sinha , Gail Zasowski , Peter Frinchaboy , Katia Cunha , Diogo Souto , Jamie Tayar , Keivan Stassun

This study calculated astrophysical parameters, as well as kinematic and galactic orbital parameters, of the open clusters NGC 1664 and NGC 6939. The work is based on CCD UBV and Gaia photometric and astrometric data from ground and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-06 S. Koc , T. Yontan , S. Bilir , R. Canbay , T. Ak , T. Banks , S. Ak , E. Paunzen

Old open clusters are useful tools to study the Galactic disk properties, both present and past. Populous samples with properties determined both accurately and homogenously are necessary to draw reliable conclusions. We present here our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Bragaglia , M. Tosi , G. Marconi , E. Carretta

The stellar content of Galactic open clusters is gradually depleted during their evolution as a result of internal relaxation and external interactions. The final residues of the evolution of open clusters are called open cluster remnants,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 M. S. Angelo , J. F. C. Santos , W. J. B. Corradi , F. F. S. Maia

The metallicity is a critical parameter that affects the correct determination fundamental characteristics stellar cluster and has important implications in Galactic and Stellar evolution research. Fewer than 10 % of the 2174 currently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-09 A. F. Oliveira , H. Monteiro , W. S. Dias , T. C. Caetano

Thanks to modern understanding of stellar evolution, we can accurately measure the age of Open Clusters (OCs). Given their position, they are ideal tracers of the Galactic disc. Gaia data release 2, besides providing precise parallaxes, led…

We report results on the analysis of eleven new Milky Way open cluster candidates, recently discovered from the detection of stellar overdensities in the Vector Point diagram, by employing extreme deconvolution Gaussian mixture models. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 A. E. Piatti , D. M. F. Illesca , A. A. Massara , M. Chiarpotti , D. Roldán , M. Morón , F. Bazzoni

Reliable fundamental parameters of open clusters such as distance, age and extinction are key to our understanding of Galactic structure and stellar evolution. In this work we use {\it Gaia} DR2 to investigate 45 open clusters listed in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 H. Monteiro , W. S. Dias , A. Moitinho , T. Cantat-Gaudin , J. R. D. Lépine , G. , Carraro , E. Paunzen

The Galactic population of open clusters provides an insight into star formation in the Galaxy. The open cluster catalogue by Dias et al.(2002b) is a rich source of data, including kinematic information. This large sample made it possible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 D. Vande Putte , T. P. Garnier , Ignacio Ferreras , R. P. Mignani , Mark Cropper

Despite progress in the theoretical knowledge of open cluster remnants and the growing search for observational identifications in recent years, open questions still remain. The methods used to analyze open cluster remnants and criteria to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. B Pavani , E. Bica

Determining the level of chemical homogeneity in open clusters is of fundamental importance in the study of the evolution of star-forming clouds and that of the Galactic disk. Yet limiting the initial abundance spread in clusters has been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-11 Jo Bovy

Using PHANGS-HST NUV-U-B-V-I imaging of 17 nearby spiral galaxies, we study samples of star clusters and stellar associations, visually selected to be bright and relatively isolated, for three purposes: to compute aperture corrections for…