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Most stars in our Galaxy form in stellar aggregates, which can become long-lived structures called open clusters (OCs). Along their dynamical evolution, their gradual depletion leave some imprints on their structure. In this work, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-19 M. S. Angelo , J. F. C. Santos , F. F. S. Maia , W. J. B. Corradi

In this work, we investigate the dynamical properties of 38 Galactic open clusters: 34 of them are located at low Galactic latitudes (|b| < 10$^{\circ}$) and are projected against dense stellar fields; the other 4 comparison objects present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 M. S. Angelo , W. J. B. Corradi , J. F. C. Santos , F. F. S. Maia , F. A. Ferreira

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

The distribution of member stars in the surroundings of an Open Cluster (OC) can shed light on the process of its formation, evolution and dissolution. The analysis of structural parameters of OCs as a function of their age and position in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Y. Tarricq , C. Soubiran , L. Casamiquela , A. Castro-Ginard , J. Olivares , N. Miret-Roig , P. A. B. Galli

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

During their dynamical evolution, Galactic open clusters (OCs) gradually lose their stellar content mainly because of internal relaxation and tidal forces. In this context, the study of dynamically evolved OCs is necessary to properly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-13 M. S. Angelo , A. E. Piatti , W. S. Dias , F. F. S. Maia

Reliable fundamental parameters of open clusters such as distance, age and extinction are key to our understanding of Galactic structure and stellar evolution. In this work we use {\it Gaia} DR2 to investigate 45 open clusters listed in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 H. Monteiro , W. S. Dias , A. Moitinho , T. Cantat-Gaudin , J. R. D. Lépine , G. , Carraro , E. Paunzen

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…

This study provides a detailed examination of the structural, astrophysical, kinematic, and dynamical properties of the open clusters COIN-Gaia 24, Czernik 24, FSR 0893, and UBC 74, which are located in the direction opposite to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-27 Selçuk Bilir , Seval Taşdemir , Ege Eraydın , Deniz Cennet Çınar , Jeison Alfonso , Remziye Canbay

We report the discovery of 25 new open clusters resulting from a search in dense low galactic latitude fields. We also provide, for the first time, structural and astrophysical parameters for the new findings and 34 other recently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Filipe A. Ferreira , J. F. C. Santos , W. J. B. Corradi , F. F. S. Maia , M. S. Angelo

We determine the mass functions (MFs) and the dynamical parameters of 15 nearby open clusters (OCs) using the unprecedented data set of the Gaia Early Data Release 3. We select the members of each cluster by combining the photometric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 H. Ebrahimi , A. Sollima , H. Haghi

We investigate the structural and dynamical properties of Open Clusters (OCs) classified as single, in pairs, or in groups. By analysing their mass, size, age, fractality, and mass segregation, we aim to identify systematic differences…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Valeria Coenda , Gustavo Baume , Tali Palma , Carlos Feinstein

Open clusters (OCs) in the Galaxy are excellent probes for tracing the structure and evolution of the Galactic disk. We present an updated catalog of parameters for 1,145 OCs, estimated using the Gaia DR3 data earlier listed in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-12 Geeta Rangwal , Aman Arya , Annapurni Subramaniam , Kulinder Pal Singh , Xiaowei Liu

Star clusters are crucial for understanding how stars evolve. Their colour-magnitude diagrams show the effects of stellar evolution of approximately coeval objects with the same chemical composition. Furthermore, the determination of their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-03 F. A. Ferreira , J. F. C. Santos , W. J. B. Corradi , M. S. Angelo , F. F. S. Maia

We report the discovery of 31 new open clusters (OCs) identified in \textit{Gaia}~DR3 data through a systematic search over 220 adjacent $1^\circ\times1^\circ$ fields towards the Galactic anticentre, in the direction of the Perseus arm gap.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-30 F. A. Ferreira , M. S. Angelo , J. F. C. Santos , W. J. B. Corradi , F. F. S. Maia

We present a systematic investigation of 1,481 Galactic open clusters (OCs) through the application of the Limepy dynamical model, from which we derive the fundamental structural parameters of OCs. We conduct the statistical analyses on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-11 Jin-Sheng Qiu , Zhen Wan , Xu-Zhi Li , Qing-Feng Zhu , Lu-lu Fan , Xiao-Hui Xu , Jun-Han Zhao , Zhi-Yong Pu

Open clusters (OCs) are popular tracers of the structure and evolutionary history of the Galactic disk. The OC population is often considered to be complete within 1.8 kpc of the Sun. The recent Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) allows the latter…

Open Clusters (OCs) can trace with a great accuracy the evolution of the Galactic disk. The aim of this work is to study the kinematical behavior of the OC population over time. We take advantage of the latest age determinations of OCs to…

Fundamental parameters and physical processes leading to the formation of white dwarfs (WDs) may be constrained and refined by discovering WDs in open clusters (OCs). Cluster membership can be utilized to establish the precise distances,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 M. Prišegen , M. Piecka , N. Faltová , M. Kajan , E. Paunzen

Open Clusters are born and evolve along the Milky Way plane, on them is imprinted the history of the Galactic disc, including the chemical and dynamical evolution. Chemical and dynamical properties of open clusters can be derived from…

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