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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

We report a detailed investigation of three intermediate-to-old age open clusters, Berkeley 17, Berkeley 18, and Berkeley 39, utilizing precise astrometric and photometric data from Gaia DR3. Cluster membership was robustly determined…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-22 A. Ahmed , W. H. Elsanhoury , D. C. Çınar , S. Taşdemir , R. Canbay , A. A. Haroon , M. S. Alenazi

We perform a systematic reanalysis of the age distribution of Galactic open star clusters. Using a catalogue of homogeneously determined ages for 834 open clusters contained in a 2 kpc cylinder around the Sun and characterised with…

We report on a first census of Galactic black hole X-ray binary (BHXRB) properties with the second data release (DR2) of {\em Gaia}, focusing on dynamically confirmed and strong candidate black hole transients. DR2 provides five-parameter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 Poshak Gandhi , Anjali Rao , Michael A. C. Johnson , John A. Paice , Thomas J. Maccarone

Aims: We provide a new distance estimate for the Pleiades based on the moving cluster method, which will be useful to further discuss the so-called Pleiades distance controversy and compare it with the very precise parallaxes from the Gaia…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 P. A. B. Galli , E. Moraux , H. Bouy , J. Bouvier , J. Olivares , R. Teixeira

This study comprehensively analyzes three open star clusters: SAI 16, SAI 81, and SAI 86 using Gaia DR3 data. Based on the ASteCA code, we determined the most probable star candidates (P >= 50%) and estimated the number of star members of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-23 Anwar Yousef Alzahrani , Aly Haroon , Waleed Elsanhoury , Deniz Cennet Çınar

Context: Planetary Nebula distance scales often suffer for model dependent solutions. Model independent trigonometric parallaxes have been rare. Space based trigonometric parallaxes are now available for a larger sample using the second…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Stefan Kimeswenger , Daniela Barría

A significant number of double stars with separations up to 2.5 arcsec are present in the Gaia Data Release 1 astrometric catalogs. Limiting our analysis to a well-studied sample of 1124 doubles resolved by Hipparcos, provided with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Valeri V. Makarov , Claus Fabricius , Julien Frouard

Aims. We are searching for new open clusters or moving groups in the Solar neighbourhood. Methods. We used the Gaia-TGAS catalogue, cut it into narrow proper motion and parallax slices and searched for significant spatial over-densities of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-20 Siegfried Röser , Elena Schilbach , Bertrand Goldman , Thomas Henning , Attila Moor , Aliz Derekas

We reprise the analysis of Stassun & Torres (2016), comparing the parallaxes of the eclipsing binaries reported in that paper to the parallaxes newly reported in the Gaia second data release (DR2). We find evidence for a systematic offset…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Keivan G. Stassun , Guillermo Torres

Context. Star clusters constitute a significant part of the stellar population in our Galaxy. The feedback processes they exert on the interstellar medium impact multiple physical processes from the chemical to the dynamical evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-20 Silvia Celli , Andreas Specovius , Stefano Menchiari , Alison Mitchell , Giovanni Morlino

We present a catalog of 3354 candidate young stars within 500 pc that appear to have been ejected from their parent associations with relative speeds of >5 km/s. These candidates have been homogeneously selected through performing a 2d…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Marina Kounkel , Aidan McBride , Keivan G. Stassun , Nathan Leigh

The membership determination for open clusters in noisy environments of the Milky Way is still an open problem. In this paper, our main aim is provide the membership probability of stars using proper motions and parallax values of stars…

We report the first radial velocity measurements of the recently identified globular cluster FSR1758. From the two member stars with radial velocities from the Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrograph reported in Gaia DR2, we find FSR1758 has a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 Jeffrey D. Simpson

The kinematical parameters, spatial shape and structure of the open cluster IC 2391 and the associated stellar stream are studied here using Gaia-DR2 (GDR2) astrometry data. The apex positions are determined for the open cluster IC 2391…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-11 E. S. Postnikova , W. H. Elsanhoury , Devesh P. Sariya , N. V. Chupina , S. V. Vereshchagin , Ing-Guey Jiang

Several dozen hypervelocity star (HVS) candidates have been reported based on the second data release of Gaia (Gaia DR2). However, it has been proven that the radial velocities of some Gaia HVS candidates are not reliable. In this paper, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Jiao Li , Shi Jia , Yan Gao , Deng-Kai Jiang , Thomas Kupfer , Ulrich Heber , Chao Liu , Xue-Fei Chen , Zhan-Wen Han

The astrometric satellite Gaia recently released part of its third data set, which provides a good opportunity to hunt for more open clusters in the Milky Way. In this work, we conduct a blind search for open clusters in the Galactic disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 C. J. Hao , Y. Xu , Z. Y. Wu , Z. H. Lin , D. J. Liu , Y. J. Li

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

(abridged) NGC6530 is a young cluster with a complex morphology and star-formation history. We present a statistical study of its global properties using a new large list of candidate members down to masses of 0.2-0.4 Msun and Gaia DR2…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 F. Damiani , L. Prisinzano , G. Micela , S. Sciortino

While Gaia has observed the phase space coordinates of over a billion stars in the Galaxy, in the overwhelming majority of cases it has only obtained five of the six coordinates, the missing dimension being the radial (line-of-sight)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-29 Aneesh Naik , Axel Widmark