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The differences in the relationships between the physical parameters and the chemical-element abundances in accreted globular star clusters and those formed inside the Galaxy have been investigated. The information on the supposed formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-22 V. A. Marsakov , V. V. Koval' , M. L. Gozha

The large astrometric and photometric survey performed by the Gaia mission allows for a panoptic view of the Galactic disc and in its stellar cluster population. Hundreds of clusters were only discovered after the latest G data release…

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 present a systematic investigation of 1,481 Galactic open clusters (OCs) through the application of the Limepy dynamical model, from which we derive the fundamental structural parameters of OCs. We conduct the statistical analyses on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-11 Jin-Sheng Qiu , Zhen Wan , Xu-Zhi Li , Qing-Feng Zhu , Lu-lu Fan , Xiao-Hui Xu , Jun-Han Zhao , Zhi-Yong Pu

The clustered nature of star formation should produce a high degree of structure in the combined phase and chemical space in the Galactic disk. To date, observed structure of this kind has been mostly limited to bound clusters and moving…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Harshil Kamdar , Charlie Conroy , Yuan-Sen Ting , Ana Bonaca , Benjamin Johnson , Phillip Cargile

The distribution of member stars in the surroundings of an Open Cluster (OC) can shed light on the process of its formation, evolution and dissolution. The analysis of structural parameters of OCs as a function of their age and position in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Y. Tarricq , C. Soubiran , L. Casamiquela , A. Castro-Ginard , J. Olivares , N. Miret-Roig , P. A. B. Galli

We report the discovery of 25 new open clusters resulting from a search in dense low galactic latitude fields. We also provide, for the first time, structural and astrophysical parameters for the new findings and 34 other recently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Filipe A. Ferreira , J. F. C. Santos , W. J. B. Corradi , F. F. S. Maia , M. S. Angelo

The stellar content of Galactic open clusters is gradually depleted during their evolution as a result of internal relaxation and external interactions. The final residues of the evolution of open clusters are called open cluster remnants,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 M. S. Angelo , J. F. C. Santos , W. J. B. Corradi , F. F. S. Maia

We analyzed the shapes of Galactic open clusters by the star counting technique with the 2MASS star catalog database. Morphological parameters such as the ellipticity and size have been derived via stellar density distribution, weighed by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. P. Chen , C. W. Chen , C. G. Shu

The Gaia mission has opened a new window into the internal kinematics of young star clusters at the sub-km/s level, with implications for our understanding of how star clusters form and evolve. We use a sample of 28 clusters and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-09 Michael A. Kuhn , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Alison Sills , Eric D. Feigelson , Konstantin V. Getman

Open clusters have long been used as tracers of Galactic structure. However, without a selection function to describe the completeness of the cluster census, it is difficult to quantitatively interpret their distribution. We create a method…

Open star clusters are dynamic systems whose evolution is critically influenced by initial conditions such as star formation efficiency and orbital parameters. Understanding their dissolution mechanisms provides insight into stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-14 M. Ishchenko , V. Masliukh , M. Hradov , P. Berczik , B. Shukirgaliyev , C. Omarov

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

Context. Most stars from in groups which with time disperse, building the field population of their host galaxy. In the Milky Way, open clusters have been continuously forming in the disk up to the present time, providing it with stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-08 Pedro Guilherme-Garcia , Alberto Krone-Martins , André Moitinho

As groups of coeval stars born from the same molecular cloud, an Open cluster (OC) is an ideal laboratory for studying the structure and dynamical evolution of the Milky Way. The release of High-Precision Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Huanbin Chi , Feng Wang , Zhongmu Li

During the last years and decades several individual studies and large-scale spectroscopic surveys significantly improved our knowledge of the Galactic metallicity distribution based on open clusters. The availability of Gaia data provided…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-09 Martin Netopil , İnci Akkaya Oralhan , Hikmet Çakmak , Raúl Michel , Yüksel Karataş

Radial migration is an important process in the Galactic disk. A few open clusters show some evidence on this mechanism but there is no systematic study. In this work, we investigate the role of radial migration on the Galactic disk based…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-29 Y. Q. Chen , G. Zhao

The physical nature of a series of 20 new open clusters is confirmed employing existing data on putative star members, mainly from second Gaia Data Release (DR2). The clusters were discovered as overdensities of stars by visual inspection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Juan Casado

We review our work on Galactic open clusters in recent years, and introduce our proposed large program for the LOCS (LAMOST Open Cluster Survey). First, based on the most complete open clusters sample with metallicity, age and distance data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Chen , J. L. Hou , J. L. Zhao , R. de Grijs

We present and analyze kinematics and orbits for a sample of 488 open clusters in the Galaxy. The velocity ellipsoid for our present sample is derived as ($\sigma_{U}$, $\sigma_{V}$, $\sigma_{W})$=$(28.7$, 15.8, 11.0) km s$^{-1}$ which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-09-22 Zhen-Yu Wu , Xu Zhou , Jun Ma , Cui-Hua Du