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A primordial group of open clusters containing NGC 6871 is confirmed and described through Gaia DR3 data and the previous literature. It is a star-forming complex containing at least six young OCs, including Teutsch 8, FSR 198 and Biurakan…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 Juan Casado , Yasser Hendy

This study is aimed at investigating the dynamic evolution of the orbits of stellar globular clusters (GCs). To integrate the orbits backward in time, the authors use models of the time-varying potentials derived from cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 Maryna Ishchenko , Margaryta Sobolenko , Peter Berczik , Taras Panamarev

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

Open clusters (OCs) act as key probes that can be leveraged to constrain the formation and evolution of the Milky Way (MW)'s disk, as each has a unique chemical fingerprint and well-constrained age. Significant Galactic dynamic interactions…

Empirical constraints on the internal dynamics of open clusters are important for understanding their evolution and evaporation. High precision astrometry from Gaia DR3 are thus useful to observe aspects of the cluster dynamics. This work…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-03 Vikrant V. Jadhav , Pavel Kroupa , Wenjie Wu , Jan Pflamm-Altenburg , Ingo Thies

This study constitutes part of a larger effort aimed at better characterizing the Galactic globular clusters (GGCs) located towards the inner Milky Way bulge and disk. Here, we focus on internal kinematics of nine GGCs, obtained from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Roger E. Cohen , Andrea Bellini , Mattia Libralato , Matteo Correnti , Thomas M. Brown , Jason S. Kalirai

We have studied the influence of an evolving gravitational potential of the Milky Way Galaxy on the orbital motion of 152 globular clusters with proper motions from the Gaia EDR3 catalogue and mean distances from Baumgardt and Vasiliev…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-23 A. T. Bajkova , A. A. Smirnov , V. V. Bobylev

Open clusters (OCs) are crucial for studying the formation and evolution of the Galactic disc. However, the lack of a large number of OCs analyzed homogeneously hampers the investigations about chemical patterns and the existence of…

We present a robust methodology for identifying photometric binaries in star clusters. Using Gaia DR3, Pan-STARRS and 2MASS data, we self-consistently define the cluster parameters and binary demographics for the open clusters (OCs) NGC…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-22 Anna C. Childs , Aaron M. Geller , Ted von Hippel , Erin Motherway , Claire Zwicker

We present orbits for 24 binaries in the field of open cluster NGC 2516 (~150 Myr) and 13 binaries in the field of open cluster NGC 2422 (~130 Myr) using results from a multi-year radial velocity survey of the cluster cores. Six of these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Isabel Lipartito , John I. Bailey , Timothy D. Brandt , Benjamin A. Mazin , Mario Mateo , Meghin E. Spencer , Ian U. Roederer

Gaia BHs, black hole (BH) binaries discovered from database of an astrometric telescope Gaia, pose a question to the standard binary evolution model. We have assessed if Gaia BHs can be formed through dynamical capture in open clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-26 Ataru Tanikawa , Savannah Cary , Minori Shikauchi , Long Wang , Michiko S. Fujii

Blue straggler stars (BSS), one of the most massive members of star clusters, have been used for over a decade to investigate mass segregation and estimate the dynamical ages of globular clusters (GCs) and open clusters (OCs). This work is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-07 Khushboo K. Rao , Kaushar Vaidya , Manan Agarwal , Shanmugha Balan , Souradeep Bhattacharya

Context: This research presents unsupervised machine learning and statistical methods to identify and analyze tidal tails in open star clusters using data from the Gaia DR3 catalog. Aims: We aim to identify member stars and to detect and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Ira Sharma , Vikrant V. Jadhav , Annapurni Subramaniam , Henriette Wirth

We aim to identify the cluster members, estimate cluster properties, study the dynamical state of the clusters as a function of mass, trace the existence of dynamical effects in massive stars, and check for spatial patterns of members in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Harsha K. H. , Annapurni Subramaniam , S. R. Dhanush , Hariharan D. S

Open clusters (OCs) are common in the Milky Way, but most of them remain undiscovered. There are numerous techniques (e.g., machine-learning algorithms) available for the exploration of OCs. However, each method has its limitations and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-28 Zhongmu Li , Caiyan Mao

We determine the mass functions (MFs) and the dynamical parameters of 15 nearby open clusters (OCs) using the unprecedented data set of the Gaia Early Data Release 3. We select the members of each cluster by combining the photometric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 H. Ebrahimi , A. Sollima , H. Haghi

Context. Open clusters are very good tracers of the evolution of the Galactic disc. Thanks to Gaia, their kinematics can be investigated with an unprecedented precision and accuracy. Aims. The distribution of open clusters in the 6D phase…

The structure of open clusters provides key insights into their evolution and the dynamics of the Milky Way. Using Gaia DR3 data, we applied a hierarchical clustering algorithm to the open cluster NGC 752 based on the kinematical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 Delong Jia , Heng Yu , Zhengyi Shao , Lu Li

Using membership of 85 open clusters from previous studies (Pang et al. 2021a,b, 2022b; Li et al. 2021) based on Gaia DR3 data, we identify binary candidates in the color-magnitude diagram, for systems with mass ratio q > 0.4. The binary…

We present a comprehensive UBVRI and Washington CT1T2 photometric analysis of seven catalogued open clusters, namely: Ruprecht 3, 9, 37, 74, 150, ESO 324-15 and 436-2. The multi-band photometric data sets in combination with 2MASS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 Andrés E. Piatti , Wilton S. Dias , Laura M. Sampedro