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The gravitational interactions between the Milky Way and in-falling satellites offer a wealth of information about the formation and evolution of our Galaxy. In this paper, we explore the high-dimensionality of the GALAH DR3 plus Gaia eDR3…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-12 Kris Youakim , Karin Lind , Iryna Kushniruk

This study is aimed at investigating the dynamic evolution of the orbits of stellar globular clusters (GCs). To integrate the orbits backward in time, the authors use models of the time-varying potentials derived from cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 Maryna Ishchenko , Margaryta Sobolenko , Peter Berczik , Taras Panamarev

Open clusters have long been used as tracers of Galactic structure. However, without a selection function to describe the completeness of the cluster census, it is difficult to quantitatively interpret their distribution. We create a method…

Open clusters belonging to star-forming complexes are the leftovers from the initial stellar generations. The study of these young systems provides constraints to models of star formation and evolution as well as to the properties of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 F. F. S. Maia , W. J. B. Corradi , J. F. C. Santos

As groups of coeval stars born from the same molecular cloud, an Open cluster (OC) is an ideal laboratory for studying the structure and dynamical evolution of the Milky Way. The release of High-Precision Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Huanbin Chi , Feng Wang , Zhongmu Li

A rare multiple open cluster system has been analyzed using Gaia DR3 astrometry and photometry data. Using Agglomerative Hierarchical clustering and Bayesian-HDBSCAN, we identify a compact core consisting of seven known open clusters and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Muhammad Akmal Husain , Ferdinand , Mochamad Ikbal Arifyanto , Muhammad Irfan Hakim

Stars are born within dense clumps of giant molecular clouds, constituting young stellar agglomerates known as embedded clusters, which only evolve into bound open clusters under special conditions. We statistically study all embedded…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Esteban F. E. Morales , Friedrich Wyrowski , Frederic Schuller , Karl M. Menten

The spatial distribution of elemental abundances and their time evolution are among the major constraints to disentangle the scenarios of formation and evolution of the Galaxy. We used the sample of open clusters available in the final…

Open clusters (OCs) are infrequent survivors of embedded clusters gestated in molecular clouds. Up to now, little is known about the initial conditions for the formation of OCs. Here, we studied this issue using high-precision astrometric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 C. J. Hao , Y. Xu , L. G. Hou , Z. H. Lin , Y. J. Li

We present a robust methodology for identifying photometric binaries in star clusters. Using Gaia DR3, Pan-STARRS and 2MASS data, we self-consistently define the cluster parameters and binary demographics for the open clusters (OCs) NGC…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Anna C. Childs , Aaron M. Geller , Ted von Hippel , Erin Motherway , Claire Zwicker

This work studies the candidate double and multiple open clusters (OCs) in the galactic sector from l = 240o to l = 270o, which contains the Vela-Puppis star formation region. To do that, we have searched the most recent and complete…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-04 Juan Casado

Context. The scale height of the spatial distribution of open clusters (OCs) in the Milky Way exhibits a well known increase with age which is usually interpreted as evidence for dynamical heating of the disc or of the disc having been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-05 Sandro Moreira , André Moitinho , André Silva , Duarte Almeida

Open clusters offer unique opportunities to study stellar dynamics and evolution under the influence of their internal gravity, the Milky Way's gravitational field, and the interactions with encounters. Using the Gaia DR3 data for a catalog…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-18 Ming Xu , Xiaoting Fu , Yang Chen , Lu Li , Min Fang , He Zhao , Penghui Liu , Yichang Zuo

Context. The dissolution rate of open clusters (OCs) and integration of their stars into the Milky Way's field population has been previously explored using their age distribution. With the advent of the Gaia mission, we have an exceptional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-29 Duarte Almeida , André Moitinho , Sandro Moreira

Context. Observations indicate that the fraction of potential binary star clusters in the Milky Way is either the same or lower than that of the Magellanic Clouds. The unprecedented precision in the parallax measurements by Gaia has allowed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Fangfang Song , Ali Esamdin , Qingshun Hu , Mengfan Zhang

We present results of a photometric survey whose aim was to derive structural and astrophysical parameters for 42 open clusters. While our sample is definitively not representative of the total open cluster sample in the Galaxy, it does…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Maciejewski , A. Niedzielski

In this work we investigate the nature of 50 overdensities from the catalogue of Froebrich, Scholz, and Raftery (FSR) projected towards the Galactic anticentre, in the sector 160{\deg} \leq \ell \leq 200{\deg}. The sample contains…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-02 Denilso Camargo , Charles Bonatto , Eduardo Bica

The large astrometric and photometric survey performed by the Gaia mission allows for a panoptic view of the Galactic disc and in its stellar cluster population. Hundreds of clusters were only discovered after the latest G data release…

Radial migration is an important process in the Galactic disk. A few open clusters show some evidence on this mechanism but there is no systematic study. In this work, we investigate the role of radial migration on the Galactic disk based…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-29 Y. Q. Chen , G. Zhao

The formation and evolution of young star clusters and OB associations is fundamental to our understanding of the star formation process, the conditions faced by young binary and planetary systems, and the formation of long-lived open and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Nicholas J. Wright