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Open clusters have long been used to gain insights into the structure, composition, and evolution of the Galaxy. With the large amount of stellar data available for many clusters in the Gaia era, new techniques must be developed for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Steffi X. Yen , Sabine Reffert , Elena Schilbach , Siegfried Röser , Nina V. Kharchenko , Anatoly E. Piskunov

We present a simple approach for obtaining robust values of astrophysical parameters from the observed colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of star clusters. The basic inputs are the Hess diagram built with the photometric measurements of a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 C. Bonatto , F. Campos , S. O. Kepler , E. Bica

Aims. We present an innovative artificial neural network (ANN) architecture, called Generative ANN (GANN), that computes the forward model, that is it learns the function that relates the unknown outputs (stellar atmospheric parameters, in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 C. Dafonte , D. Fustes , M. Manteiga , D. Garabato , M. A. Alvarez , A. Ulla , C. Allende Prieto

The unprecedented precision of Gaia has led to a paradigm shift in membership determination of open clusters where a variety of machine learning (ML) models can be employed. In this paper, we apply the unsupervised Gaussian Mixture Model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-22 Md Mahmudunnobe , Priya Hasan , Mudasir Raja , Md Saifuddin , S N Hasan

Star clusters are interesting laboratories to study star formation, single and binary stellar evolution, and stellar dynamics. We have used the exquisite data from $Gaia$'s data release 3 (DR3) to study 21 relatively rich and nearby open…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Anindya Ganguly , Prasanta K. Nayak , Sourav Chatterjee

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

We demonstrate a new Bayesian technique to invert color-magnitude diagrams of main sequence and white dwarf stars to reveal the underlying cluster properties of age, distance, metallicity, and line-of-sight absorption, as well as individual…

Conventionally, CMD analyses of nearby star clusters are based on observations in 2 passbands. They are plagued by considerable degeneracies between age, metallicity, distance (and extinction) that can largely be resolved by including…

We have initiated a long-term project, the BOAO photometric survey of open clusters, to enlarge our understanding of galactic structure using UBVI CCD photometry of open clusters which have been little studied before. This is the second…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. B. Ann , S. H. Lee , H. Sung , M. G. Lee , S. -L. Kim , M. -Y. Chun , Y. -B. Jeon , B. -G. Park , I. -S. Yuk

(ABBREVIATED:) The large majority of extragalactic star cluster studies done to date have essentially used two or three-passband aperture photometry, combined with theoretical stellar population synthesis models, to obtain age, mass and…

In Gaia DR2, the unprecedented high-precision level reached in sub-mas for astrometry and mmag for photometry. Using cluster members identified with these astrometry and photometry in Gaia DR2, we can obtain a reliable determination of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-02 Jing Zhong , Li Chen , Di Wu , Lu Li , Leya Bai , Jinliang Hou

We present a new method of predicting the ages of galaxies using a machine learning (ML) algorithm with the goal of providing an alternative to traditional methods. We aim to match the ability of traditional models to predict the ages of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-14 Laura. J. Hunt , Kevin. A. Pimbblet , David. M. Benoit

We use the framework developed as part of the MESA Isochrones and Stellar Tracks (MIST) project to assess the utility of several types of observables in jointly measuring the age and 1D stellar model parameters in star clusters. We begin…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 Jieun Choi , Charlie Conroy , Yuan-Sen Ting , Phillip A. Cargile , Aaron Dotter , Benjamin D. Johnson

Context. Near open clusters as Pleiades, Praesepe and Blanco 1 have been extensively studied due to their proximity to the Sun. The Gaia data brings the opportunity to investigate these clusters, since it contains valuable astrometric and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-27 Jeison Alfonso , Alejandro García-Varela

In our Bayesian and Statistical Analysis investigation of the open cluster NGC 6416, we utilized Gaia EDR3 astrometry data and ensemble-based unsupervised machine learning techniques to identify 406 cluster members. Using the MESA…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-30 Simanta Deka

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 aim to characterize the current status of knowledge on the accuracy of open-cluster parameters such as the age, reddening and distance. These astrophysical quantities are often used to study the global characteristics of the Milky Way…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Paunzen , M. Netopil

This study provides a detailed examination of the structural, astrophysical, kinematic, and dynamical properties of the open clusters COIN-Gaia 24, Czernik 24, FSR 0893, and UBC 74, which are located in the direction opposite to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-27 Selçuk Bilir , Seval Taşdemir , Ege Eraydın , Deniz Cennet Çınar , Jeison Alfonso , Remziye Canbay

The Gaia astrophysical parameters inference system (Apsis) provides astrophysical parameter estimates for several to 100s of millions of stars. We aim to benchmark Gaia DR3 Apsis. We have compiled about 1500 bona fide single stars in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-27 Wolfgang Brandner , Per Calissendorff , Taisiya Kopytova

Open clusters are key chemical and age tracers of Milky Way evolution. While open clusters provide significant constraints on galaxy evolution, their use has been limited due to discrepancies in measuring abundances from different studies.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-13 Amy E. Ray , Peter M. Frinchaboy , John Donor , S. D. Chojnowski , Matthew Melendez