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The bulk motion of star clusters can be determined after careful membership analysis using parametric or non-parametric approaches. This study aims to implement non-parametric membership analysis based on Binned Kernel Density Estimator…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-16 R. Priyatikanto , M. I. Arifyanto

Absolute proper motions are determined for stars and galaxies to V=17.5 over a 450 square-degree area that encloses both Magellanic Clouds. The proper motions are based on photographic and CCD observations of the Yale/San Juan Southern…

Observations of internal motions in globular clusters offer unique insights into the dynamics of the clusters. We have recently developed methods of high-precision astrometry with HST's WFPC2 camera, which allow us to measure internal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivan R. King , Jay Anderson

We present a catalog of 345,000 stars with proper motions \mu > 20 mas/yr and magnitudes r' <20, drawn from the intersection of the SDSS Data Release One and USNO-B. We first use SDSS quasars to correct the proper motions in each of the two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-01 Andrew Gould , Juna A. Kollmeier

We have derived a new photographic photometry and proper motions for 20000 stars with completeness to V = 18 in the direction of galactic center at the intermediate latitude (l = 3 deg,b = 47 deg; alpha(1950)=15h 18m, delta(1950) = +02deg…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. K. Ojha , O. Bienayme , A. C. Robin , V. Mohan

Absolute proper motions, their corresponding errors and membership probabilities of 501 stars in the intermediate-age open cluster NGC2548 region are determined from MAMA measurements of 10 photographic plates. The plates have the maximum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. Y. Wu , K. P. Tian , L. Balaguer-Nunez , C. Jordi , J. L. Zhao , J. Guibert

We present 11 new open cluster candidates found in a systematic search for unknown star clusters using the astrometric and photometric data included in the Tycho2 catalog. The possible existence of these stellar aggregates is supported by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. S. Alessi , A. Moitinho , W. S. Dias

We present the first proper motion study of M10 (NGC6254). Absolute proper motions of about 532 stars in the field of the globular cluster M10 were determined with respect to Hipparcos and ACT reference stars. In addition to photographic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Chen , M. Geffert , J. J. Wang , K. Reif , J. M. Braun

We present the results of a large-scale proper motion study of the central ~36'x16' of the Milky Way, based on our high angular resolution GALACTICNUCLEUS survey (epoch 2015) combined with the HST Paschen-alpha survey (epoch 2008). Our…

The main objective of this work is to determine the cluster members of 1876 open clusters, using positions and proper motions of the astrometric catalogue UCAC4. For this purpose we apply three different methods, all them based on a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 L. Sampedro , W. S. Dias , E. J. Alfaro , H. Monteiro , A. Molino

Using the USNO CCD Astrograph all-sky Catalog (UCAC2), we measure the mean proper motion of the two Magellanic Clouds. Appropriately selected LMC populations show a proper motion (<\mu RA>, <\mu DEC>) ~ (+0.84,+4.32) that is significantly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Momany , S. Zaggia

We present 474 new proper motion stellar systems in the southern sky having no previously known components, with 0.40" yr^-1 > mu >= 0.18" yr^-1 between declinations -47 deg and 00 deg. In this second paper utilizing the U.S. Naval…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. T. Finch , N. Zacharias , M. R. Boyd , T. J. Henry , N. C. Hambly

We present the fourth installment of the Yale/San Juan Southern Proper Motion Catalog, SPM4. The SPM4 contains absolute proper motions, celestial coordinates, and (B,V) photometry for over 103 million stars and galaxies between the south…

Proper motion studies of stars in the centre of the Milky Way have been typically limited to the Arches and Quintuplet clusters and to the central parsec. Here, we present the first results of a large-scale proper motion study of stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-18 B. Shahzamanian , R. Schödel , F. Nogueras-Lara , H. Dong , E. Gallego-Cano , A. T. Gallego-Calvente , A. Gardini

We present a catalogue of astrophysical data of 520 Galactic open clusters. These are the clusters, for which at least three most probable members (18 on average) could be identified in the ASCC-2.5, a catalogue of stars based on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 N. V. Kharchenko , A. E. Piskunov , S. Röser , E. Schilbach , R. -D. Scholz

We present a study of 7 southern open clusters based on UBVRI CCD photomety (Johnsons-Cousins system) and Gaia DR2 data. Dias 4, Dias 6 and four other clusters had UBVRI photometric observations determined for the first time. From the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Wilton S. Dias , Hektor Monteiro , Jacques R. D. Lépine , R. Prates , C. D. Gneiding , M. Sacchi

Aims: I seek to fully know the stellar and substellar populations in the young sigma Orionis open cluster, which is a benchmark for star-forming studies. Because of the very low proper motion of the cluster, late-type dwarfs with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jose A. Caballero

We discuss the nature of eleven Possible Open Cluster Remnants (POCRs) by using absolute proper motions from the Southern Proper Motion (SPM) Program 3 (Girard et al. 2004) combined with near infrared photometry from 2MASS. The analysis is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Giovanni Carraro , Dana Dinescu , Terrence Girard , William van Altena

High proper motion stars probe several extreme stellar populations, including nearby objects, Galactic halo stars, and hyper-velocity stars. Extending the search for high proper motion stars, to faint limits can increase their numbers and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Noam Segev , Eran O. Ofek

One of the results of the Milky Way Star Clusters (MWSC) survey by Kharchenko et al. (2013) was the detection of a slight under-density of old (ca. 1 Gyr) clusters within the nearest kilo-parsec from the Sun. This under-density may be due…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Siegfried Roeser , Elena Schilbach , Bertrand Goldman