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Open clusters (OCs) are regarded as tracers to understand stellar evolution theory and validate stellar models. In this study, we presented a robust approach to identifying OCs. A hybrid method of pyUPMASK and RF is first used to remove…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Huanbin Chi , Shoulin Wei , Feng Wang , Zhongmu Li

The nearby open cluster NGC 752 presents a rare opportunity to study stellar properties at ages >1 Gyr. However, constructing a membership catalog for it is challenging; most surveys have been limited to identifying its giants and dwarf…

We report 541 new open cluster candidates in Gaia EDR3 through revisiting the cluster results from an earlier analysis of the Gaia DR2, which revealed nearly a thousand open cluster candidates in the solar neighborhood (mostly d < 3 kpc)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-18 Zhihong He , Chunyan Li , Jing Zhong , Guimei Liu , Leya Bai , Songmei Qin , Yueyue Jiang , Xi Zhang , Li Chen

Star clusters are among the first celestial objects catalogued by early astronomers. As simple and coeval populations, their study has been instrumental in charting the properties of the Milky Way and providing insight into stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-06 T. Cantat-Gaudin , L. Casamiquela

Thanks to the recent wide-area photometric surveys, the number of star cluster candidates have risen exponentially in the last few years. Most detections, however, are based only on the presence of an overdensity of stars in a given region,…

Stellar mass governs stellar evolution and the distribution of stellar masses plays a central role in the dynamical evolution of stellar clusters. Using high-precision astrometry and photometry from Gaia DR3, we investigate mass segregation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-27 Jeison Alfonso , Alejandro Garcia-Varela , Katherine Vieira

The physical nature of a series of 20 new open clusters is confirmed employing existing data on putative star members, mainly from second Gaia Data Release (DR2). The clusters were discovered as overdensities of stars by visual inspection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Juan Casado

Star clusters are ideal tracers of star formation activity in systems outside the volume that can be studied using individual, resolved stars. These unresolved clusters span orders of magnitude in brightness and mass, and their formation is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-20 I. S. Konstantopoulos , K. Fedotov , S. C. Gallagher , A. Maybhate , P. R. Durrell , J. C. Charlton

Although previous searches for star clusters have been very successful, many clusters are likely still omitted, especially at high Galactic latitude regions. In this work, based on the astrometry of Gaia EDR3, we searched nearby (parallax >…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-31 Zhihong He , Kun Wang , Yangping Luo , Jing Li , Xiaochen Liu , Qingquan Jiang

A cluster finding method was developed and applied in four Local Group Galaxies (SMC, M31, M33 and NGC 6822). The aim is to study the young stellar population of these galaxies by identifying stellar structures in small and large scales.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Petros Drazinos , A. Karampelas , E. Kontizas , M. Kontizas , A. Dapergolas , E. Livanou , I. Bellas-Velidis

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

The estimation of the main parameters of star clusters is a very important target in astrophysical studies. Many of the open clusters listed in known catalogs have insuffcient astrometric parameters. Improving the observations and analysis…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-10 A. L. Tadross , Y. M. Hendy

Interstellar polarimetric data of the six open clusters Hogg 15, NGC 6611, NGC 5606, NGC 6231, NGC 5749 and NGC 6250 have been used to estimate the membership probability for the stars within them. For proper-motion member stars, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Biman J. Medhi , Motohide Tamura

Context. Open clusters that emerged from the star forming regions as gravitationally bound structures are subjected to star evaporation, ejection, and tidal forces throughout the rest of their lives. Consequently they form tidal tails that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-30 Janez Kos

Stars in open clusters are powerful probes of the intervening Galactic magnetic field, via background starlight polarimetry, because they provide constraints on the magnetic field distances. We use 2MASS photometric data for a sample of 31…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Sadia Hoq , Dan Clemens

The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) observed many open clusters as part of its programme to spectroscopically characterise the various Milky Way populations. GES spectroscopy and Gaia astrometry from its second data release are used here to assign…

In this work we improve a previously published method to calculate in a reliable way the radius of an open cluster. The method is based on the behaviour of stars in the proper motion space as the sampling changes in the position space. Here…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 Nestor Sanchez , Emilio Alfaro , Fatima Lopez-Martinez

(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

Identifying and characterizing young populations of star-forming regions is crucial to unravel their properties. In this regard, Gaia-DR3 data and machine learning tools are very useful for studying large star-forming complexes. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-03 Swagat R. Das , Saumya Gupta , Prem Prakash , Manash Samal , Jessy Jose

Context: Star clusters, composed of stars born from the same molecular cloud, serve as invaluable natural laboratories for understanding the fundamental processes governing stellar formation and evolution. Aims: This study aims to…