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Using the astrometry and integrated photometry from the Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3), we map the density variations in the distribution of young Upper Main Sequence (UMS) stars, open clusters and classical Cepheids in the Galactic disk…

We have combined Gaia astrometry with Gaia-ESO Survey radial velocities to measure the 3D rotation of the open cluster NGC 2516. We compiled a sample of 430 members with astrometry and spectroscopy and use these to determine a distance to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-06 Nicholas J. Wright , R. D. Jeffries , M. A. Whalley

Scorpius-Centaurus is the nearest OB association and its hundreds of members were divided into sub-groups, including Lower Centaurus Crux. Here we study the dynamics of the Lower Centaurus Crux area stellar content. We report the revelation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Bertrand Goldman , Siegfried Roeser , Elena Schilbach , Attila C. Moór , Thomas Henning

OB associations are primordial tracers of star formation and Galactic structure. Originally defined about 80 years ago, their historical membership lists have been superseded thanks to the precise astrometry from ESA's \textit{Gaia}'s…

Observations of clusters suffer from issues such as completeness, projection effects, resolving individual stars and extinction. As such, how accurate are measurements and conclusions are likely to be? Here, we take cluster simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Anne S. M. Buckner , Tim Naylor , Clare L. Dobbs , Steven Rieder , Thomas J. R. Bending

The large astrometric and photometric survey performed by the Gaia mission allows for a panoptic view of the Galactic disc and in its stellar cluster population. Hundreds of clusters were only discovered after the latest G data release…

The Perseus-Pisces supercluster is known as one of the largest structures in the nearby Universe that has been charted by the galaxy and galaxy cluster distributions. For the latter mostly clusters from the Abell catalogue have been used.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 Hans Boehringer , Gayoung Chon , Joachim Truemper

We present continued results from a wide-field, ~150 deg^2, optical photometric and spectroscopic survey of the northern part of the ~5 Myr-old Upper Scorpius OB Association. Photometry and spectral types were used to derive effective…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Catherine L. Slesnick , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , John M. Carpenter

We present the discovery of a companion near the deuterium burning mass limit located at a very wide distance, at an angular separation of 4.6+/-0.1 arcsec (projected distance of ~ 670 AU) from UScoCTIO108, a brown dwarf of the very young…

Context. Since the first publication of the Gaia catalogue a new view of our Galaxy has arrived. Its astrometric and photometric information has improved the precision of the physical parameters of open star clusters obtained from them.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-28 Jeison Alfonso , Alejandro García-Varela , Katherine Vieira

Stellar distances constitute a foundational pillar of astrophysics. The publication of 1.47 billion stellar parallaxes from Gaia is a major contribution to this. Yet despite Gaia's precision, the majority of these stars are so distant or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-26 C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , J. Rybizki , M. Fouesneau , M. Demleitner , R. Andrae

I have used high-precision photometry and astrometry from the third data release of Gaia (DR3) to perform a survey for members of the Taurus star-forming region and young associations in its vicinity. This work has produced a new catalog of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 K. L. Luhman

Sco OB2 is the nearest OB association, extending over approximately 2000 sq.deg. on the sky. Only its brightest members are already known (from Hipparcos) across its entire size, while studies of its lower-mass population refer only to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-13 F. Damiani , L. Prisinzano , I. Pillitteri , G. Micela , S. Sciortino

We present a non-parametric reconstruction of the three-dimensional velocity field of the Scorpius-Centaurus OB association (Sco- Cen). Using Gaia DR3 astrometry and radial velocities, we infer the velocity field using information field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-27 S. Hutschenreuter , J. Alves , L. Posch , J. Großschedl , M. Piecka , N. Miret-Roig , S. Ratzenböck , C. Swiggum

We summarize observational results on the stellar population and star formation history of the Scorpius-Centaurus OB Association (Sco OB2), the nearest region of recent massive star formation. It consists of three subgroups, Upper Scorpius…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-03 Thomas Preibisch , Eric Mamajek

Using {\it Gaia} Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) parallaxes and Bayesian inference, we infer a parallax of the Westerlund 1 (Wd1) cluster. We find a parallax of $0.34\pm{0.05}$ mas corresponding to a distance of $2.8^{+0.7}_{-0.6}$ kpc. The new…

We present photometry at 3-24um for all known members of the Upper Scorpius association (~11 Myr) based on all images of these objects obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. We have used these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 K. L. Luhman , E. E. Mamajek

We combine Gaia DR3 5-parameter astrometry with calibrated radial velocities for 23 nearby (<1 kpc) young (<60 Myr) clusters, with membership lists from Cantat-Gaudin et al. (2020). We characterise the plane-of-sky structure of the clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-10 Joseph J. Armstrong , Jonathan C. Tan

With the help of Gaia data, it is noted that in addition to the core components, there are low-density outer halo components in the extended region of open clusters. To study the extended structure beyond the core radius of the cluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 Jing Zhong , Li Chen , Yueyue Jiang , Songmei Qin , Jinliang Hou

We discuss the properties of companions to B stars in the Scorpius-Centaurus association (age ~15 Myr, 181 B-stars). We gathered available data combining high contrast imaging samples with evidence of companions from Gaia, from eclipsing…