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In this study, we utilize photometric and kinematic data from \textit{Gaia} DR3 and the {\sc ASteCA} package to analyze the sparsely studied open clusters, King 2 and King 5. For King 2, we identify 340 probable members with membership…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-25 Aly Haroon , Waleed Elsanhoury , Essam Elkholy , Abdel naby Saad , Deniz Cennet Çınar

In the Gaia era, a comprehensive analysis of the binary open clusters NGC 869 (h Persei) and NGC 884 (chi Persei) system has been conducted to investigate its structural, astrophysical, kinematic, and Galactic orbital properties, along with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-26 Seval Taşdemir , Waleed Elsanhoury , Deniz Cennet Çınar , Aly Haroon , Selçuk Bilir

We construct from Gaia eDR3 an extensive catalog of spatially resolved binary stars within $\approx$ 1 kpc of the Sun, with projected separations ranging from a few au to 1 pc. We estimate the probability that each pair is a chance…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Kareem El-Badry , Hans-Walter Rix , Tyler M. Heintz

The high-precision {\it Gaia} data release 3 (DR3) enables the discovery of numerous open clusters in the Milky Way, providing an excellent opportunity to search for blue straggler stars in open clusters and investigate their formation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Songmei Qin , Jing Zhong , Friedrich Anders , Lola Balaguer-Núñez , Chunyan Li , Yueyue Jiang , Guimei Liu , Tong Tang , Li Chen

We use the Stetson, HST, and Gaia DR3 data sets for 22 Galactic globular clusters to select their members and fit their CMDs with isochrones from DSED and BaSTI for $[\alpha/$Fe$]=+0.4$ and an adopted helium mass fraction $Y$. As a result,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-28 G. A. Gontcharov , O. S. Ryutina , C. J. Bonatto , S. S. Savchenko , S. V. Troitsky

The second Gaia data release (GDR2) provides precise five-parameter astrometric data (positions, proper motions and parallaxes) for an unprecedented amount of sources (more than $1.3$ billion, mostly stars). The use of this wealth of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 X. Luri , A. G. A. Brown , L. M. Sarro , F. Arenou , C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , A. Castro-Ginard , J. de Bruijne , T. Prusti , C. Babusiaux , H. E. Delgado

In this work, starting from the well-accepted relations in literature, we introduce a new formalism to compute the astrometric membership probabilities for sources in star clusters, and we provide an application to the case of the open…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-07 M. Griggio , L. R. Bedin

The latest Gaia Data Release 3 provides an opportunity to expand the census of Galactic open clusters harboring classical Cepheid variables, thereby bolstering the cosmic distance scale. A comprehensive analysis yielded a total of 50…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 C. J. Hao , Y. Xu , Z. Y. Wu , Z. H. Lin , S. B. Bian , Y. J. Li , D. J. Liu

The combination of precise radial velocities from multi-object spectroscopy and highly accurate proper motions from Gaia DR2 opens up the possibility for detailed 3D kinematic studies of young star forming regions and clusters. Here, we…

The fastest moving stars provide insight into several fundamental properties of the Galaxy, including the escape velocity as a function of Galactocentric radius, the total mass, and the nature and frequency of stellar encounters with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Keith Hawkins , Rosemary F. G. Wyse

The improvements in the precision of the published data in \textit{Gaia} EDR3 with respect to \textit{Gaia} DR2, particularly for parallaxes and proper motions, offer the opportunity to increase the number of known open clusters in the…

The early third data release (EDR3) of the European Space Agency satellite Gaia provides coordinates, parallaxes, and proper motions for ~1.47 billion sources in our Milky Way, based on 34 months of observations. The combination of Gaia DR2…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Tommaso Marchetti

We have selected and analyzed a sample of OB stars with known line-of-sight velocities determined through ground-based observations and with trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions from the Gaia DR2 catalogue. Some of the stars in our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-28 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova

Using Gaia DR2 data, we present an up-to-date sample of white dwarfs within 20 pc of the Sun. In total we identified 139 systems in Gaia DR2, nine of which are new detections, with the closest of these located at a distance of 13.05 pc. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 M. A. Hollands , P. E. Tremblay , B. T. Gaensicke , N. P. Gentile-Fusillo , S. Toonen

(abridged) The third data release of Gaia, has provided stellar parameters, metallicity [M/H], [{\alpha}/Fe], individual abundances, broadening parameter from its RVS spectra for about 5.6 million objects thanks to the GSP-Spec module. The…

Open clusters are among the most useful and widespread tracers of Galactic structure. The completeness of the Galactic open cluster census, however, remains poorly understood. For the first time ever, we establish the selection function of…

Monoceros R2 (Mon R2) is one of the closest large active star-forming regions. This extremely young and partially embedded region provides an excellent laboratory for studying star formation and the early evolution of young stellar objects…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-07 Sally D. Jiang , Lynne A. Hillenbrand

In this work we present a method to identify possible members of globular clusters using data from Gaia DR2. The method consists of two stages: the first one based on a clustering algorithm, and the second one based on the analysis of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 I. H. Bustos Fierro , J. H. Calderón

Using data from Gaia DR2, we study the radial number density profiles of the Galactic globular cluster sample. Proper motions are used for accurate membership selection, especially crucial in the cluster outskirts. Due to the severe…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-20 T. J. L. de Boer , M. Gieles , E. Balbinot , V. Henault-Brunet , A. Sollima , L. L. Watkins , I. Claydon

The Gaia mission has provided highly accurate observations that have significantly reduced the scatter in the colour-magnitude diagrams of open clusters. As a result of the improved isochrone sequence of the open cluster M67, we have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 Claudia Reyes , Dennis Stello , Marc Hon , Regner Trampedach , Eric Sandquist , Marc Pinsonneault