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We analyze the membership probability of young stars belonging to nearby moving groups with $\textit{Gaia}$ DR2 data. The sample of 1429 stars were identified from 'The Catalog of Suspected Nearby Young Moving Group Stars'. Good-quality…

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Precise spectroscopic classification of planet hosts is an important tool of exoplanet research at both the population and individual system level. In the era of large-scale surveys, data-driven methods offer an efficient approach to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-08 Isabel Angelo , Megan Bedell , Erik Petigura , Melissa Ness

Astrometric microlensing is a unique tool to measure stellar masses. It allows us to determine the mass of the lensing star with an accuracy of a few per cent. In this paper, we update, extend, and refine our predictions of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Jonas Klüter , Ulrich Bastian , Markus Demleitner , Joachim Wambsganss

Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) provides extensive information on the astrophysical properties of stars, such as effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity, and luminosity, for over 470 million objects. However, as Gaia's stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Aleksandra S. Avdeeva , Dana A. Kovaleva , Oleg Yu. Malkov , Gang Zhao

This study reports the first comprehensive astrometric, photometric and kinematical analysis of four newly discovered open clusters; namely QC1, QC2, QC3, and QC4, using astrometric and photometric data from the most recent Gaia EDR3 for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 W. H. Elsanhoury , Magdy Y. Amin , A. A. Haroon , Z. Awad

Open clusters (OCs) are popular tracers of the structure and evolutionary history of the Galactic disk. The OC population is often considered to be complete within 1.8 kpc of the Sun. The recent Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) allows the latter…

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

Here, we conducted a photometric and astrometric study of two open stellar clusters Dolidze-18 and Ruprecht-70, which have not been photometrically studied before. The most important thing for using Gaia (DR2) database lies in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-12 A. L. Tadross , Y. M. Hendy

In June 2022, Gaia DR3 has provided the astronomy community with about one million spectra from the Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) covering the CaII triplet region. However, one-third of the published spectra have 15<S/N<25 per pixel…

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 review the implications of the Gaia Data Release 2 catalogue for studying the dynamics of Milky Way globular clusters, focusing on two separate topics. The first one is the analysis of the full 6-dimensional phase-space distribution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Eugene Vasiliev

We present a new geometrical method aimed at determining the members of open clusters. The methodology estimates, in an N-dimensional space, the membership probabilities by means of the distances between every star and the cluster central…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-10 Laura Sampedro , Emilio J. Alfaro

Fundamental parameters and physical processes leading to the formation of white dwarfs (WDs) may be constrained and refined by discovering WDs in open clusters (OCs). Cluster membership can be utilized to establish the precise distances,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 M. Prišegen , M. Piecka , N. Faltová , M. Kajan , E. Paunzen

Gaia EDR3 offers greatly improved kinematics for nearby objects, including members of nearby young stellar moving groups (NYMGs). In this study, we aim to identify low-mass NYMG members (spectral types of M0 to mid-L) in Gaia EDR3. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Jinhee Lee , Inseok Song , Simon J. Murphy

The third Gaia data release provides low-resolution spectra for around 200 million sources. It is expected that a sizeable fraction of them contain a white dwarf (WD), either isolated, or in a binary system with a main-sequence (MS)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 David Echeverry , Santiago Torres , Alberto Rebassa-Mansergas , Aina Ferrer-Burjachs

The first Gaia Data Release presents an opportunity to characterise the low-mass population of OB associations, providing larger statistical samples and better constraints on the formation and evolution of clusters and associations. Using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Joseph J. Armstrong , Nicholas J. Wright , R. D. Jeffries

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

This study performs a multi-wavelength astrometric and photometric examination of a high-confidence sample $(N = 120,418)$ derived from a parent population of 2.36 million unique WDSS-seeded systems. By establishing an empirical polynomial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-04 Andrew Soon

In this paper, we explore the feasibility of using machine learning regression as a method of extracting basic stellar parameters and line-of-sight extinctions from spectro-photometric data. We built a stable gradient-boosted random-forest…

Sigma Orionis is an open cluster in the nearest giant star formation site - Orion. Its youth (3-5 Myr), low reddening, and relative vicinity make it an important benchmark cluster to study stellar and substellar formation and evolution.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-29 M. Žerjal , E. L. Martín , A. Pérez-Garrido