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Blue straggler stars (BSS) are well studied in globular clusters but their systematic study with secure membership determination is lacking in open clusters. We use Gaia DR2 data to determine accurate stellar membership for four…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 Kaushar Vaidya , Khushboo K. Rao , Manan Agarwal , Souradeep Bhattacharya

We report a detailed investigation of three intermediate-to-old age open clusters, Berkeley 17, Berkeley 18, and Berkeley 39, utilizing precise astrometric and photometric data from Gaia DR3. Cluster membership was robustly determined…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-22 A. Ahmed , W. H. Elsanhoury , D. C. Çınar , S. Taşdemir , R. Canbay , A. A. Haroon , M. S. Alenazi

We present a comprehensive analysis of four young open clusters, NGC 663, NGC 2301, NGC 2384, and NGC 7510, utilizing high-precision astrometric and photometric data from Gaia DR3. Cluster membership was determined using the UPMASK…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-05 W. H. Elsanhoury , S. Taşdemir , D. C. Çınar , R. Canbay , A. A. Haroon , A. Ahmed

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

Context: Open clusters' dynamical evolution is driven by stellar evolution, internal dynamics and external forces, which according to dynamical simulations, will evaporate them in a timescale of about 1 Ga. However, about 10\% of the known…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-03 N. Alvarez-Baena , R. Carrera , H. Thompson , L. Balaguer-Nuñez , A. Bragaglia , C. Jordi , E. Silva-Villa , A. Vallenari

By utilising Gaia EDR3 photometric / astrometric data, we studied the dynamical evolution from the obtained astrophysical, structural and dynamical parameters of the open clusters (OCs), Berkeley 10 (Be 10), Berkeley 81 (Be 81), Berkeley 89…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Hikmet Çakmak , Yüksel Karataş

Blue straggler stars (BSS), one of the most massive members of star clusters, have been used for over a decade to investigate mass segregation and estimate the dynamical ages of globular clusters (GCs) and open clusters (OCs). This work is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-07 Khushboo K. Rao , Kaushar Vaidya , Manan Agarwal , Shanmugha Balan , Souradeep Bhattacharya

This study provides a detailed examination of the structural, astrophysical, kinematic, and dynamical properties of the open clusters COIN-Gaia 24, Czernik 24, FSR 0893, and UBC 74, which are located in the direction opposite to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-27 Selçuk Bilir , Seval Taşdemir , Ege Eraydın , Deniz Cennet Çınar , Jeison Alfonso , Remziye Canbay

Star clusters are crucial for understanding how stars evolve. Their colour-magnitude diagrams show the effects of stellar evolution of approximately coeval objects with the same chemical composition. Furthermore, the determination of their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-03 F. A. Ferreira , J. F. C. Santos , W. J. B. Corradi , M. S. Angelo , F. F. S. Maia

We present the dynamical evolution of ten open clusters which were part of our previous studies. These clusters include both young and intermediate-age open clusters with ages ranging from 25$\pm$19 Myr to 1.78$\pm$0.20 Gyr. The total mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-19 Jayanand Maurya , Y. C. Joshi , Manash Ranjan Samal , Vineet Rawat , Anubha Singh Gour

In this work, we investigate the dynamical properties of 38 Galactic open clusters: 34 of them are located at low Galactic latitudes (|b| < 10$^{\circ}$) and are projected against dense stellar fields; the other 4 comparison objects present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 M. S. Angelo , W. J. B. Corradi , J. F. C. Santos , F. F. S. Maia , F. A. Ferreira

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…

NGC 7419 is a young open cluster notable for hosting five Red Supergiants and a high abundance of Classical Be (CBe) stars. CBe stars are main sequence non-supergiant B-type stars, which exhibit or have exhibited Balmer line emissions in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Arghya Chakraborty , Jessy Jose , Alex C. Carciofi

We present a detailed study of NGC 6791, NGC 6811, NGC 6819 and NGC 6866, the four open clusters that are located in the Kepler prime field. We use new CCD UBV(RI)KC photometry, which was combined with Gaia EDR3 photometric/astrometric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-01 Yüksel Karataş , Hikmet Çakmak , İnci Akkaya Oralhan , Charles Bonatto , Raúl Michel , Martin Netopil

Blue Straggler Stars (BSSs) are observed in Galactic globular clusters and old open clusters. The radial distribution of BSSs has been used to diagnose the dynamical evolution of globular clusters. For the first time, with a reliable sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-03 Souradeep Bhattacharya , Kaushar Vaidya , W. P. Chen , Giacomo Beccari

We aim to identify the cluster members, estimate cluster properties, study the dynamical state of the clusters as a function of mass, trace the existence of dynamical effects in massive stars, and check for spatial patterns of members in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Harsha K. H. , Annapurni Subramaniam , S. R. Dhanush , Hariharan D. S

In this paper, we have used the Gaia's Data Release-3 (DR3) data to study an intermediate-age open cluster Berkeley 27 (Be 27). A total of 131 most probable cluster members are picked within the cluster's radius based on the membership…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-12 Devesh P. Sariya , Ing-Guey Jiang , D. Bisht , R. K. S. Yadav , G. Rangwal

We investigate two neighboring clusters in the Cygnus complex, Berkeley 86 and Berkeley 87, with a primary emphasis on the evaluation of extinction in the field of view towards and across the clusters. We also analyze their kinematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-10 S. Raudeliūnas , R. P. Boyle , R. Janusz , J. Zdanavičius , M. Maskoliūnas , D. Semionov , K. Černis , V. Čepas , A. Kazlauskas

Most stars in our Galaxy form in stellar aggregates, which can become long-lived structures called open clusters (OCs). Along their dynamical evolution, their gradual depletion leave some imprints on their structure. In this work, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-19 M. S. Angelo , J. F. C. Santos , F. F. S. Maia , W. J. B. Corradi

We present a binary-based reassessment of the age of the intermediate-age open cluster NGC 7789, together with well-constrained stellar parameters for twelve components in six SB2 systems, including two eclipsing binaries. Our analysis…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Kadri Yakut , Belinda Kalomeni , Saul Rappaport
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