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The extended Main Sequence Turn-off (eMSTO) in the open cluster NGC 2355 is investigated using precise astrometry and photometry from Gaia DR3 and spectroscopic data from the Gaia-ESO Survey. We find a clear positive correlation between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jayanand Maurya , Yu Zhang , Hubiao Niu

The origin of extended main-sequence turn-offs (eMSTO) in star clusters younger than 2 Gyr still challenges our current understanding of stellar evolution. Exploiting data from Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3), we investigate eMSTOs in a large…

The origin of extended main sequence turnoffs (eMSTOs) in intermediate-age (1-3 Gyr) clusters is one of the most intriguing questions in current star cluster research. Unlike the split main sequences found in some globular clusters. which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Weijia Sun , Richard de Grijs , Licai Deng , Michael D. Albrow

Star clusters have long been considered to comprise a simple stellar population, but this paradigm is being challenged, since apart from multiple populations in Galactic globular clusters^{1,2}, a number of intermediate-age star clusters…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Beomdu Lim , Gregor Rauw , Yael Naze , Hwankyung Sung , Narae Hwang , Byeong-Gon Park

Angular momentum is a key property regulating star formation and evolution. However, the physics driving the distribution of the stellar rotation rates of early-type main-sequence stars is as yet poorly understood. Using our catalog of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Weijia Sun , Xiao-Wei Duan , Licai Deng , Richard de Grijs

Stellar rotation is a fundamental ingredient in shaping the evolution of stars and it can also be used to trace past stellar interactions. Yet, systematic studies of stellar rotation in large samples of stars belonging to different…

Many young and intermediate age massive stellar clusters host bimodal distributions in the rotation rates of their stellar populations, with a dominant peak of rapidly rotating stars and a secondary peak of slow rotators. The origin of this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 S. Kamann , N. Bastian , C. Usher , I. Cabrera-Ziri , S. Saracino

Stellar rotation, age spread and binary stars are thought to be three most possible causes of the peculiar color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of some star clusters, which exhibit extended main-sequence turn-offs (eMSTOs). It is far from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Zhongmu Li , Caiyan Mao , Liyun Zhang , Xi Zhang , Li Chen

We present the analysis of the extended Main Sequence Turn-Off (eMSTO) in the open cluster NGC\,6067. We derive the projected rotational velocity, \textit{v}sin\textit{i}, of the stars belonging to the eMSTO region of the main sequence (MS)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Jayanand Maurya , Yu Zhang , Sebastian Kamann , Hubiao Niu , Yves Frémat , Kaixiang Lang , Y. C. Joshi , M. R. Samal , Peter De Cat , Ali Esamdin

Extended main sequence turn-off (eMSTO) regions are a common feature in color-magnitude diagrams of young and intermediate-age star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds. The nature of eMSTOs remains debated in the literature. The currently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-28 Paul Goudfrooij , Leo Girardi , Matteo Correnti

Many intermediate age star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds present multiple main sequence turn-offs (MMSTO), which challenge the classical idea that star formation in such objects took place over short timescales. It has been recently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-16 Leo Girardi , Patrick Eggenberger , Andrea Miglio

Research has shown that many young and intermediate-age clusters (younger than $\sim$2 Gyr) have extended main sequences and main-sequence turnoffs (eMSTOs), which cannot be adequately described by a single isochrone. The reason for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-19 Yutian Bu , Chenyu He , Li Wang , Jiamao Lin , Chengyuan Li

Stars spend most of their lifetimes on the `main sequence' (MS) in the Hertzsprung--Russell diagram. The obvious double MSs seen in the equivalent color--magnitude diagrams characteristic of Milky Way open clusters pose a fundamental…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Weijia Sun , Chengyuan Li , Licai Deng , Richard de Grijs

The double or extended main-sequence turnoffs (MSTOs) in the color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of intermediate-age massive star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud are generally interpreted as age spreads of a few hundred Myr. However, such…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Wuming Yang , Shaolan Bi , Xiangcun Meng , Zhie Liu

Over the past decade, stellar rotation has emerged as a key factor in shaping the morphology of color-magnitude diagrams of young and intermediate-age star clusters. In this study, we use MUSE integral-field spectroscopy to investigate the…

Extended main-sequence turnoffs are observed in the color-magnitude diagrams of some young and intermediate-age star clusters. Here we report the case study of NGC 3532. Among the cluster member candidates identified using the ML-MOC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-08 Khushboo K Rao , Wen-Ping Chen

The extended main sequence (eMS) and extended main sequence turnoff (eMSTO) phenomena have been observed in some young and intermediate-age star clusters in the Milky Way and in the Magellanic Clouds. In this study, we conduct a survey of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-07 Khushboo K Rao , Wen-Ping Chen

Open clusters offer us the means to study stellar properties in samples with well-defined ages and initial chemical composition. Here we present a survey of projected rotational velocities for a large sample of mainly B-type stars in young…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Wenjin Huang , Douglas R. Gies

Star clusters are the building blocks of galaxies. They are composed of stars of nearly equal age and chemical composition, allowing us to use them as chronometers and as testbeds for gauging stellar evolution. It has become clear recently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Chen Wang , Norbert Langer , Abel Schootemeijer , Norberto Castro , Sylvia Adscheid , Pablo Marchant , Ben Hastings

The color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of intermediate-age star clusters (less than ~ 2 Gyr) are much more complex than those predicted by coeval, nonrotating stellar evolution models. Their observed extended main sequence turnoffs (eMSTOs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Mikhail Lipatov , Timothy D. Brandt , Seth Gossage
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