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We present a new census of the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) over a large field of view (>30'x30'), significantly increasing the known population of stellar and substellar cluster members with precisely determined properties. We develop and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Nicola Da Rio , Massimo Robberto , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Thomas Henning , Keivan G. Stassun

We obtained spectra of some 140 globular clusters (GCs) associated with the Virgo central cD galaxy M87 with the Subaru/FOCAS MOS mode. The fundamental properties of GCs such as age, metallicity and $\alpha$-element abundance are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 Sooyoung Kim , Suk-Jin Yoon , Sang-Yoon Lee , Chul Chung , Sangmo Tony Sohn

We select from Paper I a sample of 306 massive star clusters observed with the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) in the vicinity fields of M31 and M33 and determine their metallicities, ages and masses.…

We present precise and deep optical photometry of the globular M92. Data were collected in three different photometric systems: Sloan Digital Sky Survey (g',r',i',z'; MegaCam@CFHT), Johnson-Kron-Cousins (B, V, I; various ground-based…

We apply probabilistic generative modelling of colour-magnitude diagrams to six young Galactic open star clusters and determine their mass functions, binary mass-ratio distributions, and the frequencies of binary stars. We find that younger…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-26 Jason Alexander , Michael Albrow

I will show that photometry -- if extending over a reasonable choice of passbands -- can give fairly precise information about young star clusters and their evolutionary state. Optical colors alone are known to leave severe ambiguities due…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Fritze-v. Alvensleben

Aims. We present a study of the distribution of stellar ages in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) based on accurate HST photometry taken from the HST Treasury Program observations of the ONC utilizing the most recent estimate of the cluster's…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Reggiani , M. Robberto , N. Da Rio , M. R. Meyer , D. R. Soderblom , L. Ricci

The recent release of the second Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-2) has increased significantly the number of known GW events, enabling unprecedented constraints on formation models of compact binaries. One pressing question is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Kaze W. K. Wong , Katelyn Breivik , Kyle Kremer , Thomas Callister

We investigate the structural and dynamical properties of Open Clusters (OCs) classified as single, in pairs, or in groups. By analysing their mass, size, age, fractality, and mass segregation, we aim to identify systematic differences…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Valeria Coenda , Gustavo Baume , Tali Palma , Carlos Feinstein

Automated analysis of Gaia astrometric data has led to the discovery of many new high-quality open cluster candidates. With a good determination of their parameters, these objects become excellent tools to investigate the properties of our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Ignacio Negueruela , Abel de Burgos

The Magellanic Clouds (MCs) present a rich system of stellar clusters that can be used to probe the dynamical and chemical evolution of these neighboring and interacting irregular galaxies. In particular, these stellar clusters (SCs)…

Open clusters (OCs) are recognised as excellent tracers of Galactic thin-disc properties. At variance with intermediate-age and old OCs, for which a significant number of studies is now available, clusters younger than 150 Myr have been…

We present determination of age of clusters from 2.4 square degree region of the SMC bar. The photometric data were taken from the BVI maps of the SMC and catalog of clusters in this galaxy obtained during the OGLE-II microlensing survey.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pietrzynski , A. Udalski

We analyze the stellar populations of the Canis Major stellar over-density, using quantitative color-magnitude diagram (CMD) fitting techniques. The analysis is based on photometry obtained with the Wide Field Imager at the 2.2m telescope…

Recent work has shown that most globular clusters have at least two chemically distinct components, as well as cluster-to-cluster differences in the mean [O/Fe], [Mg/Fe], and [Si/Fe] ratios at similar [Fe/H] values. In order to investigate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Don A. VandenBerg , Peter A. Bergbusch , Aaron Dotter , Jason W. Ferguson , Georges Michaud , Jacques Richer , Charles Proffitt

We present a new catalogue of 578 OB cluster (OBC) candidates in the Andromeda galaxy (M31), identified using a MeanShift-based algorithm on HST's F275W-band imaging from the PHAT (Dalcanton et al. 2012) and PHAST (Chen et al. 2025) Hubble…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-04 Yuan Liang , Guang-Wei Li , Chao-Wei Tsai , Jingwen Wu

We investigate the nature of 4 young and low-mass open clusters (OCs) located in the $2^{nd}$ and $3^{rd}$ quadrants with near-IR 2MASS photometry (errors $<0.1$ mag). After field decontamination, the colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Charles Bonatto , Eduardo Bica

A recent JHKs study of several grand-design spiral galaxies shows a bimodal distribution of their system of star clusters and star forming complexes in colour-magnitude and colour-colour diagrams. In a comparison with stellar population…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 J. F. C. Santos , H. Dottori , P. Grosbøl

New, high-resolution MARCS synthetic spectra have been calculated for more than a dozen mixtures of the metals allowing, in turn, for variations in C:N:O, [CNO/Fe], and enhanced abundances of C, O, Mg, and Si. Bolometric Corrections (BCs)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Don A. VandenBerg , Bengt Edvardsson , Luca Casagrande , Jason W. Ferguson

Color distributions of globular clusters (GCs) in most massive galaxies are bimodal. Assuming linear color-to-metallicity conversions, bimodality is viewed as the presence of merely two GC subsystems with distinct metallicities, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Suk-Jin Yoon , Sangmo T. Sohn , Hak-Sub Kim , Chul Chung , Jaeil Cho , Sang-Yoon Lee , John P. Blakeslee