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We conducted a survey of open clusters within 1 kpc from the Sun using the astrometric and photometric data of the Gaia Data Release 2. We found 655 cluster candidates by visual inspection of the stellar distributions in proper motion space…

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A rare multiple open cluster system has been analyzed using Gaia DR3 astrometry and photometry data. Using Agglomerative Hierarchical clustering and Bayesian-HDBSCAN, we identify a compact core consisting of seven known open clusters and…

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We have retrieved multicolor WFPC2/HST data from the STScI archive for 27 nearby Massive (>= 3x10^4 M_Sun) Young (< 20 Myr) star Clusters (MYCs). The data represents the most-complete-to-date sample of clearly resolved MYCs. We have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Jesús Maíz-Apellániz

We study the degree of angular substructure in the stellar position distribution of young members of Galactic star-forming regions, looking for correlations with distance from cluster center, surface number density of stars, and local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Karl O. Jaehnig , Nicola Da Rio , Jonathan C. Tan

Studying the structures of open clusters is crucial for understanding stellar evolution and galactic dynamics. Based on Gaia DR3 data, we apply the hierarchical clustering algorithm to a young open cluster NGC 6530 and group its members…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-16 Delong Jia , Heng Yu , Zhengyi Shao , Lu Li

We have been represented the collective information of estimation procedures of parameters of the open clusters and put them together for showing the importance of clusters to understand their role in stellar evolution phenomenon. Moreover,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-24 Gireesh C. Joshi

We determine ages of 71 old Open Clusters by a two-step method: we use main-squence fitting to 10 selected clusters, in order to obtain their distances, and derive their ages from comparison with our own isochrones used before for Globular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Maurizio Salaris , Achim Weiss , Susan M. Percival

Context: Open clusters (OCs) provide homogeneous samples of white dwarfs (WDs) with known distances, extinctions, and total ages. The unprecedented astrometric precision of \textit{\textit{Gaia}} allows us to identify many novel OC--WD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-04 M. Prišegen , N. Faltová

The number of known star clusters, associations, and moving groups in the vicinity of the Sun has increased significantly due to the use of Gaia data. We investigated the existence and properties of open superclusters (OSC) within 500 pc of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-12 Juan Casado , Yasser Hendy , Nikola Faltova , Dana Kovaleva

The formation and evolution of young star clusters and OB associations is fundamental to our understanding of the star formation process, the conditions faced by young binary and planetary systems, and the formation of long-lived open and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Nicholas J. Wright

We study the three dimensional arrangement of young stars in the solar neighbourhood using the second release of the Gaia mission (Gaia DR2) and we provide a new, original view of the spatial configuration of the star forming regions within…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 E. Zari , H. Hashemi , A. G. A. Brown , K. Jardine , P. T. de Zeeuw

The estimation of the main parameters of star clusters is a very important target in astrophysical studies. Many of the open clusters listed in known catalogs have insuffcient astrometric parameters. Improving the observations and analysis…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-10 A. L. Tadross , Y. M. Hendy

Based on our compiled catalogue of fundamental astrophysical parameters for 593 open clusters, we analyze the relations between the chemical composition, spatial positions, Galactic orbital elements, age, and other physical parameters of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-12-10 M. L. Gozha , V. V. Koval' , V. A. Marsakov

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 investigate the evolutionary stages of four open clusters, Berkeley 39, Collinder 261, NGC 6819, and NGC 7789, of ages ranging from 1.6 -- 6 Gyr. These clusters have previously been classified into dynamically young and intermediate age…

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(Abridged) The lifetime of protoplanetary disks around young stars limits the timescale when planets form. A disk dissipation timescale < 10 Myr was inferred from surveys providing the fraction of stars with disks in young stellar clusters…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 I. Mendigutía , E. Solano , M. Vioque , L. Balaguer-Nuñez , A. Ribas , N. Huélamo , C. Rodrigo

We describe the methodologies that, taking advantage of Gaia-DR1 and the Gaia-ESO Survey data, enable the comparison of observed open star cluster sequences with stellar evolutionary models. The final, long-term goal is the exploitation of…

In this study, we considered the optical wavelength of Gaia DR3 to analyze poorly studied three newly open star clusters namely OCSN 203, OCSN 213, and OCSN 244 clusters with ASTECA code. Here, we identified candidates of 227, 200, and 551…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-12 W. H. Elsanhoury , Haroon A. A , E. A. Elkholy , D. C. Çınar

In very young clusters, stellar age distribution is the empirical proof of the duration of star formation (SF) and of the physical mechanisms involved in the process. We derived accurate stellar ages for the cluster NGC6530, associated with…

A high number of embedded clusters is found in the Galaxy. Depending on the formation scenario, most of them can evolve to unbounded groups that are dissolved within a few tens of Myr. A systematic study of young stellar clusters showing…

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