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A number of stellar open cluster (OC) pairs in the Milky Way occupy similar positions in the phase space (coordinates, parallax and proper motions) and therefore may constitute physically interacting systems. The characterization of such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-12 M. S. Angelo , J. F. C. Santos , F. F. S. Maia , W. J. B. Corradi

Recent studies have identified star clusters with multiple components based on accurate spatial distributions and/or proper motions from Gaia DR3, utilising diverse diagnostics to improve our understanding of subgroup evolution. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 J. Gregorio-Hetem , A. Hetem

A high number of embedded clusters is found in the Galaxy. Depending on the formation scenario, most of them can evolve to unbounded groups that are dissolved within a few tens of Myr. A systematic study of young stellar clusters showing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 T. Santos-Silva , J. Gregorio-Hetem

Deep color-magnitude diagrams are presented for poorly known open clusters Cr 261, Be 18, Be 54, Tr 5 and BH176. All clusters are old objects with age\geq 4 Gyr. BH176 is either old open cluster or young globular cluster. Extremely red…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Janusz Kaluzny , Wojtek Krzeminski , Beata Mazur

Galactic open clusters (OCs) are subject to internal and external destructive effects that gradually deplete their stellar content, leaving imprints on their structure. To investigate their dynamical state from an observational perspective,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-10 M. S. Angelo , J. F. C. Santos , W. J. B. Corradi , F. F. S. Maia

Multicolour images of the starbursting metal poor blue compact galaxy ESO338-IG04 have been obtained with WFPC2/HST. In the images we find numerous point-like sources concentrated towards the main body of the galaxy, which we identify as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Göran Östlin , Nils Bergvall , Jari Rönnback

We present the dynamical evolution of ten open clusters which were part of our previous studies. These clusters include both young and intermediate-age open clusters with ages ranging from 25$\pm$19 Myr to 1.78$\pm$0.20 Gyr. The total mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-19 Jayanand Maurya , Y. C. Joshi , Manash Ranjan Samal , Vineet Rawat , Anubha Singh Gour

We present high precision CCD photometry of 1791 objects in 20 open clusters with an age from 10 Myr to 1 Gyr. These observations were performed within the Delta a photometric system which is primarily used to detect chemically peculiar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Paunzen , K. Zwintz , H. M. Maitzen , O. I. Pintado , M. Rode-Paunzen

Context. Most stars from in groups which with time disperse, building the field population of their host galaxy. In the Milky Way, open clusters have been continuously forming in the disk up to the present time, providing it with stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-08 Pedro Guilherme-Garcia , Alberto Krone-Martins , André Moitinho

Fundamental astrophysical parameters have been derived for 20 open clusters (O\!Cs) using CCD~$U\!BV\!(RI)_C$ photometric data observed with the 84~cm telescope at the San Pedro M\'artir National Astronomical Observatory, M\'exico. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Inci Akkaya Oralhan , Yüksel Karataş , William J. Schuster , Raúl Michel , Carlos Chavarría

A photometric and astrometric study of the two open star clusters Gulliver 18 and Gulliver 58 was carried out for the first time using the early third data release of the Gaia space observatory (Gaia-EDR3). By studying the proper motions,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-12 Ashraf Tadross , Eslam Elhosseiny

We present new results of a program to study the detailed morphologies of galaxies in intermediate redshift clusters and hence understand the physical origin of the enhanced star formation in these environments at earlier epochs. Deep, high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. J. Couch , A. J. Barger , I. Smail , R. S. Ellis , R. M. Sharples

The distribution of young stars into OB associations has long been in need of updating. High-precision {\sl Gaia} early Data Release 3 astrometry, coupled with modern machine-learning methods, allows this to be done. We have compiled a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 Alexander A. Chemel , Richard de Grijs , Elena V. Glushkova , Andrey K. Dambis

Stars are born within dense clumps of giant molecular clouds, constituting young stellar agglomerates known as embedded clusters, which only evolve into bound open clusters under special conditions. We statistically study all embedded…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Esteban F. E. Morales , Friedrich Wyrowski , Frederic Schuller , Karl M. Menten

We present a photometric and kinematical analysis of two and poorly studied open clusters; Koposov 12 (FSR 802) and Koposov 43 (FSR 848) by using cross-matched data from PPMXL and Gaia DR2 catalog. We use astrometric parameters to identify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-11 W. H. Elsanhoury

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

Empirical constraints on the internal dynamics of open clusters are important for understanding their evolution and evaporation. High precision astrometry from Gaia DR3 are thus useful to observe aspects of the cluster dynamics. This work…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-03 Vikrant V. Jadhav , Pavel Kroupa , Wenjie Wu , Jan Pflamm-Altenburg , Ingo Thies

We present here the fundamental parameters of ten open star clusters, nominated from Kronberger et al. (2006) who presented some new discovered stellar groups on the basis of 2MASS photometry and DSS visual images. Star counts and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 A. L. Tadross , R. El-Bendary , A. Osman , N. Ismail , A. Bakry

Context. Open clusters (OCs) are groups of stars formed from the same cloud of gas and cosmic dust. They play an important role in studies of star formation and evolution and our understanding of galaxy structure and dynamics. Aims. The…

The detection of magnetic chemically peculiar (CP2) stars in open clusters of the Milky Way can be used to study the influence of different galactic environments on the (non-)presence of peculiarities, which has to be taken into account in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Paunzen , M. Netopil , I. Kh. Iliev , H. M. Maitzen , A. Claret , O. I. Pintado