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We present a comprehensive analysis of four young open clusters, NGC 663, NGC 2301, NGC 2384, and NGC 7510, utilizing high-precision astrometric and photometric data from Gaia DR3. Cluster membership was determined using the UPMASK…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-05 W. H. Elsanhoury , S. Taşdemir , D. C. Çınar , R. Canbay , A. A. Haroon , A. Ahmed

The study of open cluster metallicities helps to understand the local stellar formation and evolution throughout the Milky Way. Its metallicity gradient is an important tracer for the Galactic formation in a global sense. Because open…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Harald Poehnl , Ernst Paunzen

The estimation of the main parameters of star clusters is significant in astrophysical studies. The most important aspect of using the Gaia DR2 survey lies in the positions, parallax, and proper motions of cluster stars with homogeneous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Yasser Hendy , Ashraf Tadross

We present an unbiased method for evaluating the ranges of ages and metallicities which are allowed by the photometric properties of the stellar populations that dominate the light of early-type galaxies in clusters. The method is based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 I. Ferreras , S. Charlot , J. Silk

Astronomy is entering an unprecedented era of Big Data science, driven by missions like the ESA's Gaia telescope, which aims to map the Milky Way in three dimensions. Gaia's vast dataset presents a monumental challenge for traditional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Lorenzo Monti , Tatiana Muraveva , Gisella Clementini , Alessia Garofalo

Context. When trying to derive the star cluster physical parameters of the M33 galaxy using broad-band unresolved ground-based photometry, previous studies mainly made use of simple stellar population models, shown in the recent years to be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-16 P. de Meulenaer , D. Narbutis , T. Mineikis , V. Vansevičius

Even though the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) has shown superior results in the field of computer vision, it is still a challenging task to implement computer vision algorithms in real-time at the edge, especially using a low-cost IoT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Chinthaka Gamanayake , Lahiru Jayasinghe , Benny Ng , Chau Yuen

We propose a mixture model of open clusters (OCs) in the color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) to measure the OC properties, including isochrone parameters (age, distance, metallicity, and dust extinction), stellar mass function (MF), and binary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-18 Lu Li , Zhengyi Shao

Fundamental astrophysical parameters have been derived for 20 open clusters (O\!Cs) using CCD~$U\!BV\!(RI)_C$ photometric data observed with the 84~cm telescope at the San Pedro M\'artir National Astronomical Observatory, M\'exico. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Inci Akkaya Oralhan , Yüksel Karataş , William J. Schuster , Raúl Michel , Carlos Chavarría

We study the surface composition of asteroids with visible and/or infrared spectroscopy. For example, asteroid taxonomy is based on the spectral features or multiple color indices in visible and near-infrared wavelengths. The composition of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 Nanping Luo , Xiaobin Wang , Shenghong Gu , Antti Penttilä , Karri Muinonen , Yisi Liu

In this study, we extend the dust-independent Hatzidimitriou (1991) relation between cluster age and $d_{B-R}$ color difference between the red giant branch (RGB) and red clump to younger cluster ages. We perform membership analysis on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-06 Abigail R. Chriss , Guy Worthey

Open clusters have long been used to determine ages of stars, as well as calibrate stellar evolution models and other methods of age-dating stellar groups, e.g., gyrochronology, asteroseismology, and chemical clocks. In this work, we have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Natalie Myers , Sarah Loebman , Henrique Reggiani , Peter Frinchaboy

Observations of young star clusters in a variety of galaxies have been used to constrain basic properties related to star-formation, such as the fraction of stars found in clusters (Gam) and the shape of the cluster mass function. However,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-05 Miranda Caputo , Rupali Chandar , Angus Mok , Sean Linden , Paul Goudfrooij , Bradley C. Whitmore

Open clusters offer a unique possibility to study the time evolution of the radial metallicity gradients of several elements in our Galaxy, because they span large intervals in age and Galactocentric distance, and both quantities can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Laura Magrini , Paola Sestito , Sofia Randich , Daniele Galli

Context. A large fraction of Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars develop carbon-rich atmospheres during their evolution. Based on their color and luminosity, these carbon stars can be easily distinguished from many other kinds of stars.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 Shuo Ye , Wen-Yuan Cui , Yin-Bi Li , A-Li Luo , Hugh R. A. Jones

Open clusters are known as excellent tracers of the structure and chemical evolution of the Galactic disk, however, the accuracy and reliability of open cluster parameters is poorly known. In recent years, several studies aimed to present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 M. Netopil , E. Paunzen , G. Carraro

New generation large-aperture telescopes, multi-object spectrographs, and large format detectors are making it possible to acquire very large samples of stellar spectra rapidly. In this context, traditional star-by-star spectroscopic…

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

Using smart wearable devices to monitor patients electrocardiogram (ECG) for real-time detection of arrhythmias can significantly improve healthcare outcomes. Convolutional neural network (CNN) based deep learning has been used successfully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Xiaolin Li , Rajesh Panicker , Barry Cardiff , Deepu John

Context. A defining characteristic of active galactic nuclei (AGN) that distinguishes them from other astronomical sources is their stochastic variability, which is observable across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Upcoming optical…