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Studying open clusters (OCs) is essential for a comprehensive understanding of the structure and evolution of the Milky Way. Many previous studies have systematically searched for OCs near the solar system within 1.2 kpc or 20 degrees of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-14 Huanbin Chi , Feng Wang , Wenting Wang , Hui Deng , Zhongmu Li

Open clusters have long been used to gain insights into the structure, composition, and evolution of the Galaxy. With the large amount of stellar data available for many clusters in the Gaia era, new techniques must be developed for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Steffi X. Yen , Sabine Reffert , Elena Schilbach , Siegfried Röser , Nina V. Kharchenko , Anatoly E. Piskunov

The authors of the article set out to investigate the motion of Globular Star Clusters (GCs) of the Milky Way relative to the plane and center of the Galaxy. For this study, we used data from 164 Galactic Globular Clusters derived from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-25 G. S. Karapetian , A. P. Mahtessian , M. A. Hovhannisyan , L. A. Mahtessian

Currently available data on the field of velocities Vr, Vl, Vb for open star clusters are used to perform a kinematic analysis of various samples that differ by heliocentric distance, age, and membership in individual structures (the Orion,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova , S. V. Lebedeva

Star clusters provide unique advantages for investigating Galactic spiral arms, particularly due to their precise ages, positions, and kinematic properties, which are further enhanced by ongoing updates from the astrometric data. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-27 Xiaochen Liu , Zhihong He , Yangping Luo , Kun Wang

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 report the determination of high-accuracy radial velocities for 299 members of the globular cluster M92 using the Hydra multi-object spectrograph on the WIYN telescope. We have concentrated on stars outside of the central region of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. A. Drukier , H. N. Cohn , P. M. Lugger , S. D. Slavin , R. C. Berrington , B. W. Murphy

We present an analysis of three southern open star clusters NGC 6067, NGC 2506 and IC 4651 using wide-field photometric and Gaia DR2 astrometric data. They are poorly studied clusters. We took advantage of the synergy between Gaia DR2 high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-02 Geeta Rangwal , R. K. S. Yadav , Alok Durgapal , D. Bisht , D. Nardiello

This study focuses on determining the characteristics of the young open cluster NGC 6383. To achieve this, the HDBSCAN clustering algorithm is utilized to identify potential cluster members based on proper motions and parallaxes from Gaia…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-17 L. M. Pulgar-Escobar , N. A. Henríquez-Salgado

We have studied the kinematic properties of the candidates for hot subdwarfs (HSDs) selected by Geier et al. from the Gaia DR2 catalogue. We have used a total of 12 515 stars with relative trigonometric parallax errors less than 30\%. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-03 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova

We report a detailed investigation of three intermediate-to-old age open clusters, Berkeley 17, Berkeley 18, and Berkeley 39, utilizing precise astrometric and photometric data from Gaia DR3. Cluster membership was robustly determined…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-22 A. Ahmed , W. H. Elsanhoury , D. C. Çınar , S. Taşdemir , R. Canbay , A. A. Haroon , M. S. Alenazi

We have studied the kinematics of a unique sample of young open star clusters (OSCs) with high vertical velocities, $15<W<40$ km s$^{-1}$. The characteristics of these clusters were taken from the catalogue by Hunt and Reffert (2023), where…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-31 Vadim V. Bobylev , Anisa T. Bajkova

Local stellar motions are expected, and have been shown, to include signatures of the Galaxy's past dynamical evolution. These are typically divided into the disc, which shows the dynamical effects of spiral arms and the bar, and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-26 Daniel Mikkola , Paul J. McMillan , David Hobbs

The Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) provides a sample of 7,224,631 stars with full six-dimensional phase space information. Bayesian distances of these stars are available from the catalogue of Sch\"onrich et al. (2019). We exploit…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-21 A. Everall , N. W. Evans , V. Belokurov , R. Schönrich

What is the role of clusters of galaxies in probing the large-scale velocity field of the universe? We investigate the distribution of peculiar velocities of clusters of galaxies in the popular low-density ($\Omega=0.3$) flat…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Neta A. Bahcall , Renyue Cen , Mirt Gramann

Here, we report comparative study of radial velocity ($\rm RV$) data of two major surveys: Gaia Data Release 2 and RAVE Data Release 5. We restricted the sample to stars with relatively accurate radial velocities ($\sigma_{\rm RV_{Gaia}}…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 Deepak , Bacham E. Reddy

Despite having data for over 10^9 stars from Gaia, only less than 10^4 star clusters and candidates have been discovered. Particularly, distant star clusters are rarely identified, due to the challenges posed by heavy extinction and great…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Zhihong He , Yangping Luo , Kun Wang , Anbing Ren , Liming Peng , Qian Cui , Xiaochen Liu , Qingquan Jiang

Globular clusters (GCs) are the most ancient stellar systems in the Milky Way. Therefore, they play a key role in the understanding of the early chemical and dynamical evolution of our Galaxy. Around $40\%$ of them are placed within $\sim4$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Angeles Pérez-Villegas , Beatriz Barbuy , Leandro Kerber , Sergio Ortolani , Stefano O. Souza , Eduardo Bica

Passing through the Galactic disk, a massive object such as a globular cluster, can trigger star formation process leading to the birth of open clusters. Here, we analyze such possible evolutionary relationship between globular and open…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-07 A. T. Bajkova , V. V. Bobylev

We present a comprehensive analysis (photometric and kinematical) of poorly studied open cluster NGC 4337 using 2MASS, WISE, APASS, and Gaia~DR2 database. By determining the membership probabilities of stars, we identified 624 most probable…