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In this study, we develop a membership identification method and apply it for 30 open clusters (OCs) within 200 pc of the Sun using astrometric data of Gaia DR3. By accounting for projection effects that distort apparent stellar motions,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Penghui Liu , Min Fang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Xiaoying Pang , Fan Wang , Xiaoting Fu

We use the open clusters (OCs) with known parameters available in the WEBDA database and in recently published papers to derive properties related to the disk structure. The sample totals 654 OCs, consisting basically of Trumpler types I to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Bonatto , L. O. Kerber , E. Bica , B. X. Santiago

The study of dynamical properties of Galactic open clusters is a fundamental prerequisite for the comprehension of their dissolution processes. In this work, we characterized 12 open clusters, namely: Collinder 258, NGC 6756, Czernik 37,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 M. S. Angelo , A. E. Piatti , W. S. Dias , F. F. S. Maia

We present an analysis of spectrosopic and astrometric data from APOGEE-2 and Gaia DR2 to identify structures towards the Orion Complex. By applying a hierarchical clustering algorithm to the 6-dimensional stellar data, we identify…

Old open clusters (OCs) can constrain the chemical evolution of the Galactic disc through their metallicity gradients and age-metallicity relation but they are affected by low statistics. This work aims to determine precise and homogeneous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-23 Qingshun Hu , Caroline Soubiran

Context: Open clusters (OCs) provide homogeneous samples of white dwarfs (WDs) with known distances, extinctions, and total ages. The unprecedented astrometric precision of \textit{\textit{Gaia}} allows us to identify many novel OC--WD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 M. Prišegen , N. Faltová

Both star clusters and variable stars are sensitive laboratories of stellar astrophysics and evolution: cluster member stars provide context for interpreting cluster populations, whereas variability reveals the nature of individual stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Richard I. Anderson , Emily L. Hunt

We analyze the 3D morphology and kinematics of 13 open clusters (OCs) located within 500 pc of the Sun, using Gaia EDR3 and kinematic data from literature. Members of OCs are identified using the unsupervised machine learning method StarGO,…

Star clusters projected onto dense stellar fields require field star decontamination to confirm their nature and derive intrinsic photometric and structural fundamental parameters. The present work focusses on the OCs or candidates NGC5715,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Charles Bonatto , Eduardo Bica

Context: Star clusters, composed of stars born from the same molecular cloud, serve as invaluable natural laboratories for understanding the fundamental processes governing stellar formation and evolution. Aims: This study aims to…

Open clusters are key targets for both Galaxy structure and evolution and stellar physics studies. Since \textit{Gaia} DR2 publication, the discovery of undetected clusters has proven that our samples were not complete. Our aim is to…

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

By utilising Gaia EDR3 photometric / astrometric data, we studied the dynamical evolution from the obtained astrophysical, structural and dynamical parameters of the open clusters (OCs), Berkeley 10 (Be 10), Berkeley 81 (Be 81), Berkeley 89…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Hikmet Çakmak , Yüksel Karataş

Blue straggler stars (BSS), one of the most massive members of star clusters, have been used for over a decade to investigate mass segregation and estimate the dynamical ages of globular clusters (GCs) and open clusters (OCs). This work is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-07 Khushboo K. Rao , Kaushar Vaidya , Manan Agarwal , Shanmugha Balan , Souradeep Bhattacharya

We use the first data release of the Gaia mission to explore the three dimensional arrangement and the age ordering of the many stellar groups towards the Orion OB association, aiming at a new classification and characterization of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 E. Zari , A. G. A. Brown , J. de Bruijne , C. F. Manara , P. T. de Zeeuw

We continue our survey for magnetic chemically peculiar (CP2) stars in galactic open clusters to shed more light on their origin and evolution. To study the group of CP2 stars, it is essential to find these objects in different galactic…

We determined astrophysical and dynamical parameters of the open clusters (OCs) NGC 2587, Collinder 268 (Col 268), Melotte 72 (Mel 72), and Pismis 7 from Gaia DR2 photometric/astrometric data and a new technique, fitCMD. fitCMD provides (Z,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Hikmet Çakmak , Orhan Güneş , Yüksel Karataş , Charles Bonatto

Open clusters (OCs) in our Galaxy can be found in pairs, possibly forming physical binaries, or in groups. These objects offer unique insights into the process of star formation and testify to the dynamical interactions at local and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Qingshun Hu , Yufei Cai , Caroline Soubiran , Yu Dai , Yuting Li , Yangping Luo , Mingfeng Qin

In the Gaia era, the membership analysis and parameter determination of open clusters (OCs) are more accurate. We performed a census of OC's classical Cepheids based on Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) and obtained a sample of 33 OC…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Xiaoyue Zhou , Xiaodian Chen

During the last years and decades several individual studies and large-scale spectroscopic surveys significantly improved our knowledge of the Galactic metallicity distribution based on open clusters. The availability of Gaia data provided…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-09 Martin Netopil , İnci Akkaya Oralhan , Hikmet Çakmak , Raúl Michel , Yüksel Karataş