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The color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of young star clusters show that, particularly at ultraviolet wavelengths, their upper main sequences (MSs) bifurcate into a sequence comprising the bulk population and a blue periphery. The spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Yujiao Yang , Chengyuan Li , Richard de Grijs , Licai Deng

Observations indicate that present-day star formation in the Milky Way disk takes place in stellar ensembles or clusters rather than in isolation. Bound, long lived stellar groups are known as open clusters. They gradually lose stars and in…

The extended main sequence (eMS) and extended main sequence turnoff (eMSTO) phenomena have been observed in some young and intermediate-age star clusters in the Milky Way and in the Magellanic Clouds. In this study, we conduct a survey of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-07 Khushboo K Rao , Wen-Ping Chen

The tidal interactions of planets affect the stellar evolutionary status and the constraint of their physical parameters by gyrochronology. In this work, we incorporate the tidal interaction and magnetic braking of the stellar wind into…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Shuai-Shuai Guo

We present rotation periods for the solar-type primary stars in 13 close (a~< 5 AU) single-lined spectroscopic binaries with known orbital periods (P) and eccentricities (e). All binaries are members of the open clusters M35 (150Myr) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Soren Meibom , Robert D. Mathieu , Keivan G. Stassun

Context: This research presents unsupervised machine learning and statistical methods to identify and analyze tidal tails in open star clusters using data from the Gaia DR3 catalog. Aims: We aim to identify member stars and to detect and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Ira Sharma , Vikrant V. Jadhav , Annapurni Subramaniam , Henriette Wirth

We examine how tides, stellar evolution, and magnetic braking shape the rotation period (P$_{rot}$) evolution of low-mass stellar binaries up to orbital periods (P$_{orb}$) of 100 d across a wide range tidal dissipation parameters using two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 David P. Fleming , Rory Barnes , James R. A. Davenport , Rodrigo Luger

We present the first evidence of clear signatures of tidal distortions in the density distribution of the fascinating open cluster NGC~6791. We find that the 2D density map shows a clear elongation and an irregular distribution starting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-03 Giovanni Carraro , Emanuele Dalessandro

The radii of young (<100 Myr) star clusters correlate only weakly with their masses. This shallow relation has been used to argue that impulsive tidal perturbations, or `shocks', by passing giant molecular clouds (GMCs) preferentially…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-19 Mark Gieles , Florent Renaud

Context. We need to understand the spin evolution of massive stars to compute their internal rotationally induced mixing processes, isolate effects of close binary evolution, and predict the rotation rates of white dwarfs, neutron stars and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 K. Nathaniel , N. Langer , S. Simón-Díaz , G. Holgado , A. de Burgos , B. Hastings

The method of gyrochronology relates the age of its star to its rotation period. However, recent evidence of deviations from gyrochronology relations was reported in the literature. Here, we study the influence of tidal interaction between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 A. Oetjens , L. Carone , M. Bergemann , A. Serenelli

We present an analysis of the rotation of young stars in the associations Cepheus OB3b, NGC 2264, NGC 2362 and the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC). We discover a correlation between rotation rate and position in a colour-magnitude diagram (CMD)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 S. P. Littlefair , Tim Naylor , N. J. Mayne , Eric Saunders , R. D. Jeffries

We report results of a large set of N-body calculations aimed to study the evolution of multi-mass star clusters in external tidal fields. Our clusters start with the same initial mass-functions, but varying particle numbers, orbital types…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Holger Baumgardt , Junichiro Makino

Extended main sequence turn-off (eMSTO) regions are a common feature in color-magnitude diagrams of young and intermediate-age star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds. The nature of eMSTOs remains debated in the literature. The currently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-28 Paul Goudfrooij , Leo Girardi , Matteo Correnti

We postulate that most stars are born in aggregates of binary systems which are dynamically equivalent to the `dominant mode cluster'. The initial binary orbits are consitent with pre-main sequence data. Stellar masses are paired at random…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Pavel Kroupa

Magnetic braking causes the spin-down of single stars as they evolve on the main sequence. Models of magnetic braking can also explain the evolution of close binary systems, including cataclysmic variables. The well-known period gap in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-24 G. A. J. Hussain

We present the results of a detailed kinematic analysis of a significant fraction of the known population of Galactic star clusters aimed at constraining the physical mechanisms driving the onset and evolution of cluster rotation. Our study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-20 E. Dalessandro , A. Della Croce , E. Vesperini , M. Cadelano , S. Leanza , G. Ettorre , M. Hughes

Extended main sequences (eMSs) and extended main-sequence turnoffs (eMSTOs) are fascinating phenomena that are routinely observed in star clusters. These phenomena strongly challenge the current canonical "simple stellar population" picture…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Chengyuan Li , Antonino P. Milone , Weijia Sun , Richard de Grijs

The two Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters NGC 1805 and NGC 1818 are approximately the same chronological age (~30 Myr), but show different radial trends in binary frequency. The F-type stars (1.3 - 2.2 MSun) in NGC 1818 have a binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Aaron M. Geller , Richard de Grijs , Chengyuan Li , Jarrod R. Hurley

The physical mechanisms that set the initial rotation rates in massive stars are a crucial unknown in current star formation theory. Observations of young, massive stars provide evidence that they form in a similar fashion to their low-mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Anna L. Rosen , Mark R. Krumholz , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz