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In this work, starting from the well-accepted relations in literature, we introduce a new formalism to compute the astrometric membership probabilities for sources in star clusters, and we provide an application to the case of the open…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-07 M. Griggio , L. R. Bedin

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

Spectroscopy from the final internal data release of the Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) has been combined with Gaia EDR3 to assign membership probabilities to targets observed towards 63 Galactic open clusters and 7 globular clusters. The membership…

Determining the precise ages of young (tens to a few hundred Myr) kinematic (``moving") groups is important for placing star, protoplanetary disk, and planet observations on an evolutionary timeline. The nearby $\sim$25 Myr-old $\beta$…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-27 Rena A. Lee , Eric Gaidos , Jennifer van Saders , Gregory A. Feiden , Jonathan Gagné

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

Discerning the nature of open cluster candidates is essential for both individual and statistical analyses of cluster properties. Here we establish the nature of thirteen cluster candidates from the FSR cluster list using photometry from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-14 A. S. M. Buckner , D. Froebrich

In this study, we estimate the fraction of binaries with high mass ratios for 202 open clusters in the extended solar neighbourhood (closer than 1.5 kpc from the Sun). This is one of the largest homogeneous catalogues of multiplicity…

Determining the number of clusters is a fundamental issue in data clustering. Several algorithms have been proposed, including centroid-based algorithms using the Euclidean distance and model-based algorithms using a mixture of probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ryosuke Motegi , Yoichi Seki

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

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

We investigate the evolutionary stages of four open clusters, Berkeley 39, Collinder 261, NGC 6819, and NGC 7789, of ages ranging from 1.6 -- 6 Gyr. These clusters have previously been classified into dynamically young and intermediate age…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-17 Shanmugha Balan , Khushboo K Rao , Kaushar Vaidya , Manan Agarwal , Souradeep Bhattacharya

Aims. GAIA delivers the positions and velocities of stars at unprecedented precision. Therefore, for star clusters, there exists much higher confidence in whether a specific star is a member of a particular group. However, membership…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-22 Arunima Arunima , Susanne Pfalzner , Amith Govind

(abridged) NGC6530 is a young cluster with a complex morphology and star-formation history. We present a statistical study of its global properties using a new large list of candidate members down to masses of 0.2-0.4 Msun and Gaia DR2…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 F. Damiani , L. Prisinzano , G. Micela , S. Sciortino

We present a new framework to detect various types of variable objects within massive astronomical time-series data. Assuming that the dominant population of objects is non-variable, we find outliers from this population by using a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-17 Min-Su Shin , Michael Sekora , Yong-Ik Byun

We introduce an unsupervised clustering algorithm to improve training efficiency and accuracy in predicting energies using molecular-orbital-based machine learning (MOB-ML). This work determines clusters via the Gaussian mixture model (GMM)…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Lixue Cheng , Jiace Sun , Thomas F. Miller

Gaussian Mixture Models are one of the most studied and mature models in unsupervised learning. However, outliers are often present in the data and could influence the cluster estimation. In this paper, we study a new model that assumes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-24 Sida Liu , Adrian Barbu

Recently, Lee et al. used Gaussian mixture models (GMM) to study the radio pulsar population. In the distribution of normal pulsars in the P-dotP plane, they found four clusters. We develop this approach further and apply it to different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 A. P. Igoshev , S. B. Popov

In this study, we considered the optical wavelength of Gaia DR3 to analyze poorly studied three newly open star clusters namely OCSN 203, OCSN 213, and OCSN 244 clusters with ASTECA code. Here, we identified candidates of 227, 200, and 551…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-12 W. H. Elsanhoury , Haroon A. A , E. A. Elkholy , D. C. Çınar

The census of open clusters in the Milky Way is in a never-before seen state of flux. Recent works have reported hundreds of new open clusters thanks to the incredible astrometric quality of the Gaia satellite, but other works have also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Emily L. Hunt , Sabine Reffert

This study focuses on determining the characteristics of the young open cluster NGC 6383. To achieve this, the HDBSCAN clustering algorithm is utilized to identify potential cluster members based on proper motions and parallaxes from Gaia…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-17 L. M. Pulgar-Escobar , N. A. Henríquez-Salgado