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We apply the automatic stellar stream detection algorithm StarStream to Gaia Data Release 3 and identify 87 stellar streams associated with Galactic globular clusters (GCs), including 34 high-quality cases with median completeness and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-02 Yingtian Chen , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Adrian M. Price-Whelan

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

With the release of Gaia data, the number of known Galactic open clusters (OCs) has increased rapidly, providing an excellent opportunity to confirm more binary open clusters in the Milky Way. Using a recently released OC catalogue, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-28 Zhongmu Li , Zhanpeng Zhu

Membership of stars in open clusters is one of the most crucial parameters in studies of star clusters. Gaia opened a new window in the estimation of membership because of its unprecedented 6-D data. In the present study, we used published…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 Md Mahmudunnobe , Priya Hasan , Mudasir Raja , S N Hasan

The Gaia astrometric mission may offer an unprecedented opportunity to discover new tidal streams in the Galactic halo. To test this, we apply nGC3, a great-circle-cell count method that combines position and proper motion data to identify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 Cecilia Mateu , Andrew Cooper , Andreea S. Font , Luis Aguilar , Carlos Frenk , Shaun Cole , Wenting Wang , Ian G. McCarthy

An earlier analysis of the Milky Way Star Cluster (MWSC) catalogue revealed an apparent lack of old (> 1 Gyr) open clusters in the solar neighbourhood (< 1 kpc). To fill this gap we undertook a search for hitherto unknown star clusters,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-05 S. Schmeja , N. V. Kharchenko , A. E. Piskunov , S. Röser , E. Schilbach , D. Froebrich , R. -D. Scholz

The abundance of dark matter (DM) subhalos orbiting a host galaxy is a generic prediction of the cosmological framework, and is a promising way to constrain the nature of DM. In this paper, we investigate the use of machine learning-based…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-02 Abdullah Bazarov , María Benito , Gert Hütsi , Rain Kipper , Joosep Pata , Sven Põder

The Xuyi Schmidt Telescope Photometric Survey of the Galactic Anti-center (XSTPS-GAC) is a photometric sky survey that covers nearly 6 000 deg^2 towards Galactic anti-center in g r i bands. Half of its survey field locates on the Galactic…

Context. Most stars from in groups which with time disperse, building the field population of their host galaxy. In the Milky Way, open clusters have been continuously forming in the disk up to the present time, providing it with stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-08 Pedro Guilherme-Garcia , Alberto Krone-Martins , André Moitinho

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

Clustering analysis, a classical issue in data mining, is widely used in various research areas. This article aims at proposing a self-adaption grey DBSCAN clustering (SAG-DBSCAN) algorithm. First, the grey relational matrix is used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Shizhan Lu

The Hubble Missing Globular Cluster Survey has secured high quality astro photometric data in two bands for 34 clusters never observed with HST. When combined with Gaia positional measurements, this data set enables the investigation of the…

The outer Galaxy presents a distinctive environment for investigating star formation. This study develops a novel approach to identify true cluster members based on unsupervised clustering using astrometry with significant uncertainties. As…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-15 Vishwas Patel , Joseph L. Hora , Matthew L. N. Ashby , Sarita Vig

Context. Although the Gaia catalogue on its own is a very powerful tool, it is the combination of this high-accuracy archive with other archives that will truly open up amazing possibilities for astronomical research. The advanced…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-28 P. M. Marrese , S. Marinoni , M. Fabrizio , G. Altavilla

Chemodynamical tagging has been suggested as a powerful tool to trace stars back to their birth clusters. However, the efficacy of chemodynamical tagging as a means to recover individual stellar clusters is still under debate. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-17 Nicholas A. Barth , David Mendez , Rana Ezzeddine , Yuxi , Lu , Leslie M. Morales , Zachary R. Claytor , Jamie Tayar

Context. Near open clusters as Pleiades, Praesepe and Blanco 1 have been extensively studied due to their proximity to the Sun. The Gaia data brings the opportunity to investigate these clusters, since it contains valuable astrometric and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-27 Jeison Alfonso , Alejandro García-Varela

In this work we explore the new catalog of galactic open clusters that became available recently, containing 1750 clusters that have been re-analysed using the Gaia DR2 catalog to determine the stellar memberships. We used the young open…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-02 H. Monteiro , D. A. Barros , W. S. Dias , J. R. D. Lépine

The unprecedented precision of Gaia has led to a paradigm shift in membership determination of open clusters where a variety of machine learning (ML) models can be employed. In this paper, we apply the unsupervised Gaussian Mixture Model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-22 Md Mahmudunnobe , Priya Hasan , Mudasir Raja , Md Saifuddin , S N Hasan

This paper describes the incremental behaviours of Density based clustering. It specially focuses on the Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) algorithm and its incremental approach.DBSCAN relies on a density…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Sanjay Chakraborty , N. K. Nagwani

We present a wavelet-based algorithm to identify dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way in ${\it Gaia}$ DR2 data. Our algorithm detects overdensities in 4D position--proper motion space, making it the first search to explicitly use velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-15 Elise Darragh-Ford , Ethan O. Nadler , Sean McLaughlin , Risa H. Wechsler
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