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The peripheral regions of globular clusters (GCs) are extremely challenging to study due to their low surface brightness nature and the dominance of Milky Way contaminant populations along their sightlines. We have developed a probabilistic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 Pete B. Kuzma , Annette M. N. Ferguson , Jorge Peñarrubia

We identified blue straggler stars (BSSs) in 53 open clusters utilizing data from Gaia DR3. Most of these clusters are situated in the outer regions of the Galactic disc, encompassing structures such as the warp and the Outer arm. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Qian Cui , Zhihong He , Shunhong Deng , Liming Peng , Chunyan Li , Yangping Luo , Kun Wang

Open clusters are convenient probes of the structure and history of the Galactic disk. They are also fundamental to stellar evolution studies. The second Gaia data release contains precise astrometry at the sub-milliarcsecond level and…

We have used a star-count algorithm based the Panoramic Survey Telescope And Rapid Response System 3$\pi$ survey data aim to identify and characterize uncharted open clusters (OCs). With limiting magnitudes of about 22 mag in \gps, \rps,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-09-04 C. C. Lin , W. P. Chen

Context: Unresolved binaries in star clusters can bias stellar and cluster mass estimates, making their proper treatment essential for studying cluster dynamics and evolution. Aims: We aim to develop a fast and robust framework for jointly…

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

The Galactic globular cluster system is incomplete, especially in the low latitude regions of the Galactic bulge and disk. We report the physical characterization of twelve star clusters in the Milky Way, most of which are explored here for…

Although previous searches for star clusters have been very successful, many clusters are likely still omitted, especially at high Galactic latitude regions. In this work, based on the astrometry of Gaia EDR3, we searched nearby (parallax >…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-31 Zhihong He , Kun Wang , Yangping Luo , Jing Li , Xiaochen Liu , Qingquan Jiang

The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) is a public, high-resolution spectroscopic survey with FLAMES@VLT. GES targeted in particular a large sample of open clusters (OCs) of all ages. The different kinds of OCs are useful to reach the main science…

Context: The light element (anti-)correlations shown by globular clusters (GCs) are the main spectroscopic signature of multiple stellar populations. These internal abundance variations provide us with fundamental constraints on the…

Despite having data for over 10^9 stars from Gaia, only less than 10^4 star clusters and candidates have been discovered. Particularly, distant star clusters are rarely identified, due to the challenges posed by heavy extinction and great…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Zhihong He , Yangping Luo , Kun Wang , Anbing Ren , Liming Peng , Qian Cui , Xiaochen Liu , Qingquan Jiang

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

A number of stellar open cluster (OC) pairs in the Milky Way occupy similar positions in the phase space (coordinates, parallax and proper motions) and therefore may constitute physically interacting systems. The characterization of such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-12 M. S. Angelo , J. F. C. Santos , F. F. S. Maia , W. J. B. Corradi

Context. Open clusters (OCs) are groups of stars formed from the same cloud of gas and cosmic dust. They play an important role in studies of star formation and evolution and our understanding of galaxy structure and dynamics. Aims. The…

In the Gaia era, the membership analysis and parameter determination of open clusters (OCs) are more accurate. We performed a census of OC's classical Cepheids based on Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) and obtained a sample of 33 OC…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Xiaoyue Zhou , Xiaodian Chen

We present a new cluster detection algorithm designed for the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) survey but with generic application to any multiband data. The method makes no prior assumptions about the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 D. N. A. Murphy , J. E Geach , R. G. Bower

A detailed study of stellar populations in Milky Way (MW) satellite galaxies remains an observational challenge due to their faintness and fewer spectroscopically confirmed member stars. We use unsupervised machine learning methods to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Devika K Divakar , Pallavi Saraf , Sivarani Thirupathi , Vijayakumar H Doddamani

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

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

We present a study of six open clusters (Berkeley 67, King 2, NGC 2420, NGC 2477, NGC 2682 and NGC 6940) using the Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) aboard \textit{ASTROSAT} and \textit{Gaia} EDR3. We used combinations of astrometric,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-02 Vikrant V. Jadhav , Clara M. Pennock , Annapurni Subramaniam , Ram Sagar , Prasanta Kumar Nayak