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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

Most of what we know about the formation of stars, and essentially everything we know about the formation of planets, comes from observations of our solar neighborhood within 2 kpc of the Sun. Before 2018, accurate distance measurements…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-28 Catherine Zucker , João Alves , Alyssa Goodman , Stefan Meingast , Phillip Galli

Membership studies characterising open clusters with Gaia data, most using DR2, are so far limited at magnitude G = 18 due to astrometric uncertainties at the faint end. Our goal is to extend current open cluster membership lists with faint…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-12 M. G. J. van Groeningen , A. Castro-Ginard , A. G. A. Brown , L. Casamiquela , C. Jordi

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

In this work we present a method to identify possible members of globular clusters using data from Gaia DR2. The method consists of two stages: the first one based on a clustering algorithm, and the second one based on the analysis of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 I. H. Bustos Fierro , J. H. Calderón

Most star clusters dissolve into the Galaxy over tens to hundreds of millions of years after they form. While recent Gaia studies have honed our view of cluster dispersal, the exact chronology of which star formation events begat which star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Andrew W. Boyle , Luke G. Bouma , Andrew W. Mann

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

We explore the possibility of detecting and characterizing the warp of the stellar disc of our Galaxy using synthetic Gaia data. The availability of proper motions and, for the brightest stars radial velocities, adds a new dimension to this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 H. Abedi , C. Mateu , L. A. Aguilar , F. Figueras , M. Romero-Gomez

We attempt to identify RR Lyrae (RRL) stars in stellar streams that might have escaped from seven globular clusters (GCs) based on proper motions, distances, color-magnitude diagrams, and other properties extracted from the Gaia Early Data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 Mohamad Abbas , Eva K. Grebel , Mirko Simunovic

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

Open clusters are among the most useful and widespread tracers of Galactic structure. The completeness of the Galactic open cluster census, however, remains poorly understood. For the first time ever, we establish the selection function of…

It is challenging to reliably identify stars that were born together outside of actively star-forming regions and bound stellar systems. However, co-natal stars should be present throughout the Galaxy, and their demographics can shed light…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Harshil Kamdar , Charlie Conroy , Yuan-Sen Ting , Ana Bonaca , Martin Smith , Anthony G. A. Brown

Membership of stars in open clusters is one of the most crucial parameters in studies of star clusters. Gaia opened a new window in the estimation of membership because of its unprecedented 6-D data. In the present study, we used published…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 Md Mahmudunnobe , Priya Hasan , Mudasir Raja , S N Hasan

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 K. Ujjwal , Sreeja S. Kartha , Blesson Mathew , P. Manoj , Mayank Narang

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

The debris from past merger events is expected and, to some extent, known to populate the stellar halo near the Sun. We aim to identify and characterise such merger debris using Gaia DR3 data supplemented by metallicity and chemical…

The astrometric satellite Gaia recently released part of its third data set, which provides a good opportunity to hunt for more open clusters in the Milky Way. In this work, we conduct a blind search for open clusters in the Galactic disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 C. J. Hao , Y. Xu , Z. Y. Wu , Z. H. Lin , D. J. Liu , Y. J. Li

Observations of clusters suffer from issues such as completeness, projection effects, resolving individual stars and extinction. As such, how accurate are measurements and conclusions are likely to be? Here, we take cluster simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-14 Anne S. M. Buckner , Tim Naylor , Clare L. Dobbs , Steven Rieder , Thomas J. R. Bending

The study of open star clusters makes us understand a lot about the composition and construction of the Milky Way Galaxy. Thanks to the Gaia DR2 database that helps us to get the genetic members of star clusters using their proper motions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-23 W. A. Badawy , A. L. Tadross , Y. M. Hendy , I. A. Hassan , M. N. Ismail

Star clusters are among the first celestial objects catalogued by early astronomers. As simple and coeval populations, their study has been instrumental in charting the properties of the Milky Way and providing insight into stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-06 T. Cantat-Gaudin , L. Casamiquela