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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

We report 1,656 new star clusters found in the Galactic disk (|b|<20 degrees) beyond 1.2 kpc, using Gaia EDR3 data. Based on an unsupervised machine learning algorithm, DBSCAN, and followed our previous studies, we utilized a unique method…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Zhihong He , Xiaochen Liu , Yangping Luo , Kun Wang , Qingquan Jiang

We present results from our continuing program to identify new, low-mass, members of the nearby young moving groups (NYMGs) using a proper motion selection algorithm and various observational techniques. We have three goals: 1) To provide…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Joshua E. Schlieder , Sébastien Lépine , Michal Simon

This study presents structural and fundamental astrophysical parameters of poorly studied open cluster NGC 2509. We used the third photometric and astrometric data release of the Gaia (Gaia DR3) to perform analyses. By taking into account…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-12 T. Yontan , S. Koc

We explore the phase-space structure of nearby halo stars identified kinematically from Gaia DR2 data. We focus on their distribution in velocity and in "integrals of motion" space as well as on their photometric properties. Our sample of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-27 Helmer H. Koppelman , Amina Helmi , Jovan Veljanoski

Aims. We look for common proper motion companions to stars of the nearby young beta Pictoris moving group. Methods. First, we compiled a list of 185 beta Pictoris members and candidate members from 35 representative works. Next, we used the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 F. J. Alonso-Floriano , J. A. Caballero , M. Cortes-Contreras , E. Solano , D. Montes

We confirm 66 low-mass stellar and brown dwarf systems (K7-M9) plus 19 visual or spectroscopic companions of the beta Pictoris Moving Group (BPMG). Of these, 41 are new discoveries, increasing the known low-mass members by 45%. We also add…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Evgenya L. Shkolnik , Katelyn N. Allers , Adam L. Kraus , Michael C. Liu , Laura Flagg

Identifying and characterizing young stars in the Solar neighbourhood is essential to find and describe planets in the early stages of their evolution. This work seeks to identify nearby young stars showing a Lithium 6707.78$\,\AA$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 M. Žerjal , M. J. Ireland , T. Nordlander , J. Lin , L. Casagrande , J. Horner , G. De Silva , S. Martell , K. Čotar , G. Traven , T. Zwitter

Recent results using radial-velocity measurements from the Gaia-ESO Survey have led to the discovery of multiple kinematic populations across the Vela OB2 association. We present here a proper-motion study of the same region. Our aim is to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 F. Damiani , L. Prisinzano , R. D. Jeffries , G. G. Sacco , S. Randich , G. Micela

AIMS: With our low-resolution spectroscopic observing program for selected blue proper motion stars, we tried to find new white dwarfs (WDs) in the solar neighbourhood. METHODS: We used the LSPM catalogue with a lower proper motion limit of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 R. -D. Scholz , H. Meusinger , A. Schwope , H. Jahreiß , I. Pelisoli

The high-precision {\it Gaia} data release 3 (DR3) enables the discovery of numerous open clusters in the Milky Way, providing an excellent opportunity to search for blue straggler stars in open clusters and investigate their formation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Songmei Qin , Jing Zhong , Friedrich Anders , Lola Balaguer-Núñez , Chunyan Li , Yueyue Jiang , Guimei Liu , Tong Tang , Li Chen

We conducted a survey of open clusters within 1 kpc from the Sun using the astrometric and photometric data of the Gaia Data Release 2. We found 655 cluster candidates by visual inspection of the stellar distributions in proper motion space…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-01 Gyuheon Sim , Sang Hyun Lee , Hong Bae Ann , Seunghyeon Kim

Fast, ejected stars have been found around several young star-forming regions, such as the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC). These ejected stars can be used to constrain the initial density, spatial and kinematic substructure when compared to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Christina Schoettler , Richard J. Parker , Jos de Bruijne

We revisit the moving groups (MGs) in the solar neighborhood with a sample of 91969 nearby stars constructed from LAMOST DR7. Using the wavelet technique and Monte Carlo simulations, five MGs together with a new candidate located at $V…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-29 Yong Yang , Jingkun Zhao , Jiajun Zhang , Xianhao Ye , Gang Zhao

Using the kinematically unbiased technique described in Binks, Jeffries & Maxted (2015), we present optical spectra for a further 122 rapidly-rotating (rotation periods < 6 days), X-ray active FGK stars, selected from the SuperWASP survey.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Alex S. Binks , Robin. D. Jeffries , Jacob. L. Ward

Although previous searches for star clusters have been very successful, many clusters are likely still omitted, especially at high Galactic latitude regions. In this work, based on the astrometry of Gaia EDR3, we searched nearby (parallax >…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-31 Zhihong He , Kun Wang , Yangping Luo , Jing Li , Xiaochen Liu , Qingquan Jiang

We present a novel approach for identifying members of open star clusters using Gaia DR3 data by combining Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) and Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) techniques. Our method employs a three-step process: initial filtering…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-11 Rafe Sharif , M. Khakian Ghomi , M. Taefi

We present first results from follow-up of targets in the northern hemisphere Beta Pictoris and AB Doradus moving group candidate list of Schlieder, Lepine, and Simon (2012). We obtained high-resolution, near-infrared spectra of 27…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Joshua E. Schlieder , Sebastien Lepine , Michal Simon

With all the new discoveries being made about nearby young stars, the ability to find new nearby young stars is as important as ever, and membership identification codes will continue to perform a vital role in scientific research. In the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Adric R. Riedel

In an earlier work, we demonstrated the effectiveness of Bayesian neural networks in estimating the missing line-of-sight velocities of Gaia stars, and published an accompanying catalogue of blind predictions for the line-of-sight…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-13 Aneesh P. Naik , Axel Widmark