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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

Currently clusters/associations of stars are mainly detected as surface density enhancements relative to the background field. While clusters form, their surface density increases. It likely decreases again at the end of the star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Susanne Pfalzner , Kirsten Vincke , Mai Xiang

Open clusters are convenient probes of the structure and history of the Galactic disk. They are also fundamental to stellar evolution studies. The second Gaia data release contains precise astrometry at the sub-milliarcsecond level and…

Open clusters (OCs) are regarded as tracers to understand stellar evolution theory and validate stellar models. In this study, we presented a robust approach to identifying OCs. A hybrid method of pyUPMASK and RF is first used to remove…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Huanbin Chi , Shoulin Wei , Feng Wang , Zhongmu Li

COIN-Gaia 13 is a newly discovered open cluster revealed by Gaia DR2 data. It is a nearby open cluster with a distance of about 513 pc. Combined with the five-dimensional astrometric data of Gaia EDR3 with higher accuracy, we use the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-26 Leya Bai , Jing Zhong , Li Chen , Jing Li , Jinliang Hou

OB associations are primordial tracers of star formation and Galactic structure. Originally defined about 80 years ago, their historical membership lists have been superseded thanks to the precise astrometry from ESA's \textit{Gaia}'s…

The Ophiuchus cloud complex is one of the best laboratories to study the earlier stages of the stellar and protoplanetary disc evolution. The wealth of accurate astrometric measurements contained in the Gaia Data Release 2 can be used to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 H. Cánovas , C. Cantero , L. Cieza , A. Bombrun , U. Lammers , B. Merín , A. Mora , Á. Ribas , D. Ruíz-Rodríguez

The Orion complex is arguably the most studied star-forming region in the Galaxy. While stars are still being born in the Orion nebula, the oldest part was believed to be no more than 13 Myr old. In order to study the full hierarchy of star…

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

Binary stars play a crucial role in our understanding of the formation and evolution of star clusters and their stellar populations. We use Gaia Data Release 3 to homogeneously analyze 78 Galactic open clusters and the unresolved binary…

The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) is a public, high-resolution spectroscopic survey with FLAMES@VLT. GES targeted in particular a large sample of open clusters (OCs) of all ages. The different kinds of OCs are useful to reach the main science…

Open clusters (OCs) in our Galaxy can be found in pairs, possibly forming physical binaries, or in groups. These objects offer unique insights into the process of star formation and testify to the dynamical interactions at local and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Qingshun Hu , Yufei Cai , Caroline Soubiran , Yu Dai , Yuting Li , Yangping Luo , Mingfeng Qin

Stellar mass governs stellar evolution and the distribution of stellar masses plays a central role in the dynamical evolution of stellar clusters. Using high-precision astrometry and photometry from Gaia DR3, we investigate mass segregation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-27 Jeison Alfonso , Alejandro Garcia-Varela , Katherine Vieira

We report 541 new open cluster candidates in Gaia EDR3 through revisiting the cluster results from an earlier analysis of the Gaia DR2, which revealed nearly a thousand open cluster candidates in the solar neighborhood (mostly d < 3 kpc)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-18 Zhihong He , Chunyan Li , Jing Zhong , Guimei Liu , Leya Bai , Songmei Qin , Yueyue Jiang , Xi Zhang , Li Chen

During their dynamical evolution, Galactic open clusters (OCs) gradually lose their stellar content mainly because of internal relaxation and tidal forces. In this context, the study of dynamically evolved OCs is necessary to properly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-13 M. S. Angelo , A. E. Piatti , W. S. Dias , F. F. S. Maia

Context: Star clusters, composed of stars born from the same molecular cloud, serve as invaluable natural laboratories for understanding the fundamental processes governing stellar formation and evolution. Aims: This study aims to…

Studying open clusters (OCs) is essential for a comprehensive understanding of the structure and evolution of the Milky Way. Many previous studies have systematically searched for OCs near the solar system within 1.2 kpc or 20 degrees of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-14 Huanbin Chi , Feng Wang , Wenting Wang , Hui Deng , Zhongmu Li

We carry out a search for tidal tails in a sample of open clusters with known relatively elongated morphology. We identify the member stars of these clusters from the precise astrometric and deep photometric data from $Gaia$ Early Data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 Souradeep Bhattacharya , Khushboo K. Rao , Manan Agarwal , Shanmugha Balan , Kaushar Vaidya

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

Context: The light element (anti-)correlations shown by globular clusters (GCs) are the main spectroscopic signature of multiple stellar populations. These internal abundance variations provide us with fundamental constraints on the…