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We perform a systematic reanalysis of the age distribution of Galactic open star clusters. Using a catalogue of homogeneously determined ages for 834 open clusters contained in a 2 kpc cylinder around the Sun and characterised with…

The astrometric satellite Gaia recently released part of its third data set, which provides a good opportunity to hunt for more open clusters in the Milky Way. In this work, we conduct a blind search for open clusters in the Galactic disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 C. J. Hao , Y. Xu , Z. Y. Wu , Z. H. Lin , D. J. Liu , Y. J. Li

Context. Since the first publication of the Gaia catalogue a new view of our Galaxy has arrived. Its astrometric and photometric information has improved the precision of the physical parameters of open star clusters obtained from them.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-28 Jeison Alfonso , Alejandro García-Varela , Katherine Vieira

Aims: Based on our well-determined sample of open clusters in the all-sky catalogue ASCC-2.5 we derive new linear sizes of some 600 clusters, and investigate the effect of mass segregation of stars in open clusters. Methods: Using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-15 E. Schilbach , N. V. Kharchenko , A. E. Piskunov , S. Röser , R. -D. Scholz

Open Clusters are born and evolve along the Milky Way plane, on them is imprinted the history of the Galactic disc, including the chemical and dynamical evolution. Chemical and dynamical properties of open clusters can be derived from…

Context. The dissolution rate of open clusters (OCs) and integration of their stars into the Milky Way's field population has been previously explored using their age distribution. With the advent of the Gaia mission, we have an exceptional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-29 Duarte Almeida , André Moitinho , Sandro Moreira

Based on astrometric data from Gaia DR2, we employ an unsupervised machine learning method to blindly search for open star clusters in the Milky Way within the Galactic latitude range of |b| < 20 degrees. In addition to 2,080 known…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-02 Zhi-Hong He , Ye Xu , Chao-Jie Hao , Zhen-Yu Wu , Jing-Jing Li

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

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…

Current catalogues of open clusters are rather heterogeneous and incomplete lists of clusters than true catalogues. Before there has been no attempts of automatic search for open clusters in huge photometric catalogues using homogeneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivan Zolotukhin , Sergey Koposov , Elena Glushkova

The publication of the \emph{Gaia} catalogue and improvements in methods to determine memberships and fundamental parameters of open clusters has led to major advances in recent years. However, important parameters such as the masses of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-31 Anderson Almeida , Hektor Monteiro , Wilton S. Dias

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 on the extent of the effects of the Milky Way's gravitational field in shaping the structural parameters and internal dynamics of its globular cluster population. We make use of a homogeneous, up-to-date data set with kinematics,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Andrés E. Piatti , Jeremy Webb , Raymond Carlberg

We systematically searched for open clusters in the solar neighborhood within 500 pc using pyUPMASK and HDBSCAN clustering algorithms based on {\it Gaia} DR3. Taking into consideration that the physical size for most open clusters is less…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Songmei Qin , Jing Zhong , Tong Tang , Li Chen

We have determined masses, stellar mass functions and structural parameters of 112 Milky Way globular clusters by fitting a large set of N-body simulations to their velocity dispersion and surface density profiles. The velocity dispersion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-03 H. Baumgardt , M. Hilker

[abridged] We present a first cosmological analysis of a refined cluster catalog from the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey (RCS). The input cluster sample is derived from 72.07 square degrees of imaging data [...] The catalog contains 956…

With the help of Gaia data, it is noted that in addition to the core components, there are low-density outer halo components in the extended region of open clusters. To study the extended structure beyond the core radius of the cluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 Jing Zhong , Li Chen , Yueyue Jiang , Songmei Qin , Jinliang Hou

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 Ophiuchus cloud complex is one of the best laboratories to study the earlier stages of the stellar and protoplanetary disc evolution. The wealth of accurate astrometric measurements contained in the Gaia Data Release 2 can be used to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 H. Cánovas , C. Cantero , L. Cieza , A. Bombrun , U. Lammers , B. Merín , A. Mora , Á. Ribas , D. Ruíz-Rodríguez

We conducted a survey of open clusters within 1 kpc from the Sun using the astrometric and photometric data of the Gaia Data Release 2. We found 655 cluster candidates by visual inspection of the stellar distributions in proper motion space…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-01 Gyuheon Sim , Sang Hyun Lee , Hong Bae Ann , Seunghyeon Kim