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The main objective of this work is to determine the cluster members of 1876 open clusters, using positions and proper motions of the astrometric catalogue UCAC4. For this purpose we apply three different methods, all them based on a…

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The improvements in the precision of the published data in \textit{Gaia} EDR3 with respect to \textit{Gaia} DR2, particularly for parallaxes and proper motions, offer the opportunity to increase the number of known open clusters in the…

Blue straggler stars present as secure members in the Galactic open clusters form a major challenge to the conventional picture of evolutionary population synthesis based on the stellar evolution theory of single stars, as illustrated in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Y. Xin , L. Deng , Z. Han

Reliable stellar atmospheric parameters are essential for probing stellar structure and evolution, and for stellar population studies. However, various deviations appear in comparisons with different ground-based spectroscopic surveys. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Tong Tang , Songmei Qin , Jing Zhong , Yueyue Jiang , Li Chen

The identification and characterization of stellar members within a star-forming region are critical to many aspects of star formation, including formalization of the initial mass function, circumstellar disk evolution and star-formation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Elizabeth Melton

The large astrometric and photometric survey performed by the Gaia mission allows for a panoptic view of the Galactic disc and in its stellar cluster population. Hundreds of clusters were only discovered after the latest G data release…

The Gaia mission has opened a new window into the internal kinematics of young star clusters at the sub-km/s level, with implications for our understanding of how star clusters form and evolve. We use a sample of 28 clusters and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-09 Michael A. Kuhn , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Alison Sills , Eric D. Feigelson , Konstantin V. Getman

COIN-Gaia 13 is a newly discovered open cluster revealed by Gaia DR2 data. It is a nearby open cluster with a distance of about 513 pc. Combined with the five-dimensional astrometric data of Gaia EDR3 with higher accuracy, we use the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-26 Leya Bai , Jing Zhong , Li Chen , Jing Li , Jinliang Hou

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

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

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

Young stellar clusters harbour complex spatial structures emerging from the star formation process. Identifying stellar over-densities is a key step to constrain better how these structures are formed. The high accuracy of distances derived…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-04 Timothé Roland , Christian M. Boily , Laurent Cambrésy

We investigate the evolutionary stages of four open clusters, Berkeley 39, Collinder 261, NGC 6819, and NGC 7789, of ages ranging from 1.6 -- 6 Gyr. These clusters have previously been classified into dynamically young and intermediate age…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-17 Shanmugha Balan , Khushboo K Rao , Kaushar Vaidya , Manan Agarwal , Souradeep Bhattacharya

We introduce the Unified Cluster Catalogue, the largest catalogue of stellar clusters currently listing nearly 14000 objects. In this initial release it exclusively contains Milky Way open clusters, with plans to include other objects in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-13 G. I. Perren , M. S. Pera , H. D. Navone , R. A. Vázquez

Young stellar associations hold a star formation record that can persist for millions of years, revealing the progression of star formation long after the dispersal of the natal cloud. To identify nearby young stellar populations that trace…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 Ronan Kerr , Aaron C. Rizzuto , Adam L. Kraus , Stella S. R. Offner

Context: The Canis Major (CMa) star-forming region, a remote molecular cloud complex within the recently discovered Radcliffe Wave, remains under-explored in the literature. Aims: We revisit the stellar census in the CMa region,…

There is a growing interest in the automated characterization of open clusters using data from the Gaia mission. This work evidences the importance of choosing an appropriate sampling radius (the radius of the circular region around the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 Nestor Sanchez , Fatima Lopez-Martinez , Sandra Ocando , Pere Blay

We investigate the properties of globular clusters in a galaxy cluster, using the particle tagging method with a semi-analytical approach in a cosmological context. We assume globular clusters form from dark matter halo mergers and their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 So-Myoung Park , Jihye Shin , Rory Smith , Kyungwon Chun

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

Blue Stragglers are stars located in an unexpected region of the color-magnitude diagram of a stellar population, as they appear bluer and more luminous than the stars in the turnoff region. They are ubiquitous, since they have been found…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 M. J. Rain , G. Carraro , J. A. Ahumada , S. Villanova , H. Boffin , L. Monaco , G. Beccari