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Using high-precision observations from the space-based \textit{Gaia} and \textit{TESS} missions, complemented by ground-based spectroscopic data and multi-band photometric surveys, we perform a detailed investigation of the Galactic open…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 K. Yakut , B. Kalomeni , S. Rappaport , Veselin Kostov

This paper provides a detailed comparison of the differences in parameters derived for a star cluster from its color-magnitude diagrams depending on the filters and models used. We examine the consistency and reliability of fitting three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Shane Hills , Ted von Hippel , Stephane Courteau , Aaron M. Geller

We present deep photometric observations of the open cluster NGC 2477 using HST/WFPC2. By identifying seven cluster white dwarf candidates, we present an analysis of the white dwarf age of this cluster, using both the traditional method of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-19 Elizabeth J. Jeffery , Ted von Hippel , Steven DeGennaro , David van Dyk , Nathan Stein , William H. Jefferys

The ages of pulsating stars in clusters can be determined by isochrone fitting and it can be further improved by asteroseismic modelling. We analyse the intermediate-age open cluster NGC2477, known to suffer from differential extinction, to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 D. B. Palakkatharappil , O. L. Creevey

We present a new independent determination for the age of one of the oldest open clusters, NGC 188: $6.41 \pm 0.33$ Gyr. We utilize a novel approach where we jointly fit the radial velocities (RVs) and spectral energy distributions (SED) of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 K. Yakut , B. Kalomeni , S. Rappaport

We investigate how isochrones computed with different input physics and initial conditions affect the age dating of the open cluster NGC 6866, and compare the results with asteroseismic ages derived from Kepler photometry. Using Gaia DR3…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Haotian Wang , Gang Li , Dario J. Fritzewski , Timothy Van Reeth , Conny Aerts

We present a statistical approach for determining the age of Globular Clusters (GCs) that allows estimating the age derived from CMDs more accurately than the conventional methods of the isochrone fitting. We measure how closely a set of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Miriam Rengel , Juan Mateu , Gustavo Bruzual

We present a robust methodology for identifying photometric binaries in star clusters. Using Gaia DR3, Pan-STARRS and 2MASS data, we self-consistently define the cluster parameters and binary demographics for the open clusters (OCs) NGC…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Anna C. Childs , Aaron M. Geller , Ted von Hippel , Erin Motherway , Claire Zwicker

Currently there are two main techniques for independently determining the ages of stellar populations: main sequence evolution theory (via cluster isochrones) and white dwarf cooling theory. Open clusters provide the ideal environment for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-19 E. J. Jeffery , T. von Hippel , W. H. Jefferys , D. E. Winget , N. Stein , S. DeGennaro

We present an update of our on-going effort to improve the precision of white dwarf cosmochronology via careful analyses of white dwarf photometry in open clusters. To improve the precision of white dwarf and main sequence age analysis, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. von Hippel , D. E. Winget , W. H. Jefferys , J. G. Scott

$Context$. Gaia Second Data Release provides precise astrometry and photometry for more than 1.3 billion sources. This catalog opens a new era concerning the characterization of open clusters and test stellar models, paving the way for a…

We estimate the absolute age of the globular cluster NGC 3201 using $10,000$ sets of theoretical isochrones constructed through Monte Carlo simulation using the Dartmouth Stellar Evolution Program. These isochrones take into consideration…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 Jiaqi , Ying , Brian Chaboyer , Wenxin Du

We determine ages of 71 old Open Clusters by a two-step method: we use main-squence fitting to 10 selected clusters, in order to obtain their distances, and derive their ages from comparison with our own isochrones used before for Globular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Maurizio Salaris , Achim Weiss , Susan M. Percival

Context: Analysis of ages and metallicities of star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds provide information for studies on the chemical evolution of the Clouds and other dwarf irregular galaxies. Aims: The aim is to derive ages and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Bruno Dias , Paula Coelho , Beatriz Barbuy , Leandro Kerber , Thais Idiart

We have developed a maximum-likelihood procedure to fit theoretical isochrones to the observed cluster color-magnitude diagrams of NGC 6866, an open cluster in the Kepler Spacecraft field of view. The Markov-Chain Monte Carlo algorithm…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Kenneth Janes , Sydney A. Barnes , Soeren Meibom , Sadia Hoq

We present a new method to compute stellar ages in Globular Clusters (GC) that is ten times more precise than the traditional isochrone fitting procedure. The method relies on accurate stellar evolutionary tracks and on photometry for GCs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Raul Jimenez , Paolo Padoan

The fundamentals of estimating essential stellar parameters of an open cluster-NGC 2360 and globular clusters-NGC 5272 are presented extensively in this work. Here, the evaluation of stellar parameters, by manually fitting the appropriate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 Kanwar Preet Kaur , Pankaj S. Joshi

We present new evolutionary stellar models suitable for old Population I clusters, discussing both the consequences of the most recent improvements in the input physics and the effect of element diffusion within the stellar structures.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Castellani , S. Degl'Innocenti , M. Marconi

We present our analysis of archival Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 observations in F555W (~V) and F450W (~B) of the intermediate-age populous star cluster NGC 416 in the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy. We use published…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kenneth J. Mighell , Ata Sarajedini , Rica S. French

We present a statistical approach for estimating the age of Globular Clusters by measurement of the likelihood between the observed cluster sequences in the Colour--Magnitude Diagram and the synthetic cluster sequences computed from stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Miriam Rengel , Gustavo Bruzual
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