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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…

Stellar membership determination of an open cluster is an important process to do before further analysis. Basically, there are two classes of membership determination method: parametric and non-parametric. In this study, an alternative of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-16 R. Priyatikanto , M. I. Arifyanto

In this study, we develop a membership identification method and apply it for 30 open clusters (OCs) within 200 pc of the Sun using astrometric data of Gaia DR3. By accounting for projection effects that distort apparent stellar motions,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Penghui Liu , Min Fang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Xiaoying Pang , Fan Wang , Xiaoting Fu

Clustering is a cornerstone of modern data analysis. Detecting clusters in exploratory data analyses (EDA) requires algorithms that make few assumptions about the data. Density-based clustering algorithms are particularly well-suited for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Daniël Bot , Leland McInnes , Jan Aerts

We present a new method to detect meteor showers using the Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise algorithm (DBSCAN; Ester et al. 1996). DBSCAN is a modern cluster detection algorithm that is well suited to the problem…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Glenn Sugar , Althea Moorhead , Peter Brown , Bill Cooke

This study presents structural and fundamental astrophysical parameters of poorly studied open cluster NGC 2509. We used the third photometric and astrometric data release of the Gaia (Gaia DR3) to perform analyses. By taking into account…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-12 T. Yontan , S. Koc

The distribution of member stars in the surroundings of an Open Cluster (OC) can shed light on the process of its formation, evolution and dissolution. The analysis of structural parameters of OCs as a function of their age and position in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Y. Tarricq , C. Soubiran , L. Casamiquela , A. Castro-Ginard , J. Olivares , N. Miret-Roig , P. A. B. Galli

Open clusters are key targets for both Galaxy structure and evolution and stellar physics studies. Since \textit{Gaia} DR2 publication, the discovery of undetected clusters has proven that our samples were not complete. Our aim is to…

Recent studies have identified star clusters with multiple components based on accurate spatial distributions and/or proper motions from Gaia DR3, utilising diverse diagnostics to improve our understanding of subgroup evolution. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 J. Gregorio-Hetem , A. Hetem

We present a kinematic and dynamical analysis of six Galactic open clusters NGC~2204, NGC~2660, NGC~2262, Czernik~32, Pismis~18, and NGC~2437, using \textit{Gaia}~DR3. We used Bayesian and Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) methods to identify…

The Northern Sky Optical Cluster Survey is a project to create an objective catalog of galaxy clusters over the entire high-galactic-latitude Northern sky, with well understood selection criteria. We use the object catalogs generated from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 R. R. Gal , R. R. DeCarvalho , S. C. Odewahn , S. G. Djorgovski , V. E. Margoniner

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

The Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS) subset of the first Gaia catalogue contains an unprecedented sample of proper motions and parallaxes for two million stars brighter than G~12 mag. We take advantage of the full astrometric solution…

This work proposes a multiple machine learning method (MMLM) aiming to improve the accuracy and robustness in the analysis of star clusters. The MMLM performance is evaluated by applying it to the reanalysis of the old binary cluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-18 Denilso Camargo

We report 1,656 new star clusters found in the Galactic disk (|b|<20 degrees) beyond 1.2 kpc, using Gaia EDR3 data. Based on an unsupervised machine learning algorithm, DBSCAN, and followed our previous studies, we utilized a unique method…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Zhihong He , Xiaochen Liu , Yangping Luo , Kun Wang , Qingquan Jiang

We propose the DPSM method, a density-based node clustering approach that automatically determines the number of clusters and can be applied in both data space and graph space. Unlike traditional density-based clustering methods, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Feiping Nie , Yitao Song , Jingjing Xue , Rong Wang , Xuelong Li

In the massive globular cluster NGC 2808, RGB stars form at least five distinct groups in the so-called chromosome map photometric plane, arguably corresponding to different stellar populations. While a human expert can separate the groups…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-13 Mario Pasquato , Antonino Milone

We have been represented the collective information of estimation procedures of parameters of the open clusters and put them together for showing the importance of clusters to understand their role in stellar evolution phenomenon. Moreover,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-24 Gireesh C. Joshi

We present a homogeneous catalog of 1,232 open clusters with precisely determined ages, metallicities, distances, extinctions, and stellar mass function (MF) slopes, derived from Gaia DR3 data. The parameters are inferred using the Mixture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-28 Lu Li , Zhengyi Shao , Zhaozhou Li , Xiaoting Fu