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Many open clusters listed in modern catalogues were initially reported by visual astronomers as apparent overdensities of bright stars. As observational techniques and analysis methods continue to improve, some of them have been shown to be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-27 T. Cantat-Gaudin , F. Anders

Precise mass constraints are vital for the characterisation of brown dwarfs and exoplanets. Here we present how the combination of data obtained by Gaia and GRAVITY can help enlarge the sample of substellar companions with measured…

We present a new clustering method, Significance Mode Analysis (SigMA), to extract co-spatial and co-moving stellar populations from large-scale surveys such as ESA Gaia. The method studies the topological properties of the density field in…

Using data from the Gaia Data Release 3 (Gaia DR3) and Kepler/K2, we present a catalog of 16 open clusters with ages ranging from 4 to 4000 Myr, which provides detailed information on membership, binary systems, and rotation. We assess the…

In this paper, a distance between the Gaussian Mixture Models(GMMs) is obtained based on an embedding of the K-component Gaussian Mixture Model into the manifold of the symmetric positive definite matrices. Proof of embedding of K-component…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Amit Vishwakarma , KS Subrahamanian Moosath

The learning of Gaussian Mixture Models (also referred to simply as GMMs) plays an important role in machine learning. Known for their expressiveness and interpretability, Gaussian mixture models have a wide range of applications, from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Ruichong Zhang

In very young clusters, stellar age distribution is the empirical proof of the duration of star formation (SF) and of the physical mechanisms involved in the process. We derived accurate stellar ages for the cluster NGC6530, associated with…

We present a new independent determination for the age of one of the oldest open clusters, NGC 188: $6.41 \pm 0.33$ Gyr. We utilize a novel approach where we jointly fit the radial velocities (RVs) and spectral energy distributions (SED) of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 K. Yakut , B. Kalomeni , S. Rappaport

The observation of our home galaxy, the Milky Way (MW), is made difficult by our internal viewpoint. The Gaia survey that contains around 1.6 billion star distances is the new flagship of MW structure and can be combined with other…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-15 David Cornu

Community detection tasks have received a lot of attention across statistics, machine learning, and information theory with a large body of work concentrating on theoretical guarantees for the stochastic block model. One line of recent work…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-06 Heather Mathews , Vaishakhi Mayya , Alexander Volfovsky , Galen Reeves

We use the Stetson, HST, and Gaia DR3 data sets for 22 Galactic globular clusters to select their members and fit their CMDs with isochrones from DSED and BaSTI for $[\alpha/$Fe$]=+0.4$ and an adopted helium mass fraction $Y$. As a result,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-28 G. A. Gontcharov , O. S. Ryutina , C. J. Bonatto , S. S. Savchenko , S. V. Troitsky

Learning a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) is a fundamental problem in machine learning, learning theory, and statistics. One notion of learning a GMM is proper learning: here, the goal is to find a mixture of $k$ Gaussians $\mathcal{M}$ that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-04 Jerry Li , Ludwig Schmidt

Several studies have been presented in the last few years applying some kind of automatic processing of data to estimate the fundamental parameters of open clusters. These parameters are later on employed in larger scale analyses, for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 G. I. Perren , M. S. Pera , H. D. Navone , R. A. Vázquez

We have derived accurate distances to Galactic globular clusters by combining data from the Gaia Early Data Release 3 with distances based on Hubble Space telescope HST data and literature based distances. We determine distances either…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 Holger Baumgardt , Eugene Vasiliev

Using multi-wavelength imaging from the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope we study the stellar cluster populations of two adjacent fields in the nearby face-on spiral galaxy, M83. The observations cover the galactic centre…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 N. Bastian , A. Adamo , M. Gieles , H. J. G. L. M. Lamers , S. S. Larsen , E. Silva-Villa , L. J. Smith , R. Kotulla , I. S. Konstantopoulos , G. Trancho , E. Zackrisson

We describe a new catalog of accelerating star candidates with Gaia $G\le 17.5$ mag and distances $d\le 100$ pc. Designated as Gaia Nearby Accelerating Star Catalog (GNASC), it contains 29,684 members identified using a supervised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-19 Marc L. Whiting , Joshua B. Hill , Benjamin C. Bromley , Scott J. Kenyon

This paper provides a detailed comparison of the differences in parameters derived for a star cluster from its color-magnitude diagrams depending on the filters and models used. We examine the consistency and reliability of fitting three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Shane Hills , Ted von Hippel , Stephane Courteau , Aaron M. Geller

Context. Large-scale surveys across wavelengths, aided by machine learning, have improved the detection of old open clusters in high-extinction Milky Way regions. Aims. We aim to confirm or reject automatically detected open clusters in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-26 C. O. Obasi , E. R. Garro , J. G. Fernández-Trincado , D. Minniti , M. Gómez , M. C. Parisi , M. Ortigoza-Urdaneta

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

Context. Selecting a cluster in proper motion space is an established method for identifying members of a star forming region. The first data release from Gaia (DR1) provides an extremely large and precise stellar catalogue, which when…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-10 Sam Wilkinson , Bruno Merín , Pablo Riviere-Marichalar