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The Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3), published in June 2022, delivers a diverse set of astrometric, photometric, and spectroscopic measurements for more than a billion stars. The wealth and complexity of the data makes traditional approaches for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-15 F. Anders , A. Khalatyan , A. B. A. Queiroz , S. Nepal , C. Chiappini

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

In this study, we develop a membership identification method and apply it for 30 open clusters (OCs) within 200 pc of the Sun using astrometric data of Gaia DR3. By accounting for projection effects that distort apparent stellar motions,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Penghui Liu , Min Fang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Xiaoying Pang , Fan Wang , Xiaoting Fu

Spectroscopy from the final internal data release of the Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) has been combined with Gaia EDR3 to assign membership probabilities to targets observed towards 63 Galactic open clusters and 7 globular clusters. The membership…

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

We systematically searched for open clusters in the solar neighborhood within 500 pc using pyUPMASK and HDBSCAN clustering algorithms based on {\it Gaia} DR3. Taking into consideration that the physical size for most open clusters is less…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Songmei Qin , Jing Zhong , Tong Tang , Li Chen

In this work, starting from the well-accepted relations in literature, we introduce a new formalism to compute the astrometric membership probabilities for sources in star clusters, and we provide an application to the case of the open…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-07 M. Griggio , L. R. Bedin

The improvements in the precision of the published data in \textit{Gaia} EDR3 with respect to \textit{Gaia} DR2, particularly for parallaxes and proper motions, offer the opportunity to increase the number of known open clusters in the…

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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Muhammad Akmal Husain , Ferdinand , Mochamad Ikbal Arifyanto , Muhammad Irfan Hakim

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

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

We combine Gaia Data Release 3 and artificial intelligence to enhance the current statistics of substellar companions, particularly within regions of the orbital period vs. mass parameter space that remain poorly constrained by the radial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 A. Abreu , J. Lillo-Box , A. M. Perez-Garcia , J. Sahlmann , J. H. J. de Bruijne , C. Cifuentes

The outer Galaxy presents a distinctive environment for investigating star formation. This study develops a novel approach to identify true cluster members based on unsupervised clustering using astrometry with significant uncertainties. As…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-15 Vishwas Patel , Joseph L. Hora , Matthew L. N. Ashby , Sarita Vig

The publication of the Gaia Data Release 2 (Gaia DR2) opens a new era in Astronomy. It includes precise astrometric data (positions, proper motions and parallaxes) for more than $1.3$ billion sources, mostly stars. To analyse such a vast…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 A. Castro-Ginard , C. Jordi , X. Luri , F. Julbe , M. Morvan , L. Balaguer-Núñez , T. Cantat-Gaudin

Very precise observational data are needed for studying the stellar cluster parameters (distance, reddening, age, metallicity) and cluster internal kinematics. In turn, these give us an insight into the properties of our Galaxy, for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-16 Martin Piecka , Ernst Paunzen

In this paper, we apply the machine learning clustering algorithm Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) to study the membership of stars in twelve open clusters (NGC~2264, NGC~2682, NGC~2244, NGC~3293,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-17 Mudasir Raja , Priya Hasan , Md Mahmudunnobe , Md Saifuddin , S N Hasan

We performed counts of stars with poor astrometric solutions of Gaia DR3 in the regions of open star clusters: NGC 188, NGC 1039, NGC 2287, NGC 2301, NGC 2360, NGC 2420, NGC 2527, NGC 2548, NGC 2682 (M 67), NGC 3114, NGC 3766, NGC 5460, NGC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-15 Dmitry I. Tagaev , Anton F. Seleznev

We present a homogeneous catalog of 1,232 open clusters with precisely determined ages, metallicities, distances, extinctions, and stellar mass function (MF) slopes, derived from Gaia DR3 data. The parameters are inferred using the Mixture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-28 Lu Li , Zhengyi Shao , Zhaozhou Li , Xiaoting Fu

The presence of Gaia DR3 provides a large sample of stars with complete 6D information, offering a fertile ground for the exploration of stellar objects that were accreted to the Milky Way through ancient merger events. In this study, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-26 Zhuohan Li , Gang Zhao , Ruizhi Zhang , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Yuqin Chen , João A. S. Amarante

We present a machine learning (ML) framework for the detection of wide binary star systems using Gaia DR3 data. By training supervised ML models on established wide binary catalogues, we efficiently classify wide binaries and employ…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-31 Amoy Ashesh , Harsimran Kaur , Sandeep Aashish