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Building on the recent release of a new \emph{Gaia}-based blue straggler star catalog in Galactic open star clusters (OCs), we explored the properties of these stars in a cluster sample spanning a wide range in fundamental parameters. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-26 M. J. Rain , M. S. Pera , G. Perren , O. Benvenuto , J. Panei , A. de Vito , G. Carraro , S. Villanova

We identified blue straggler stars (BSSs) in 53 open clusters utilizing data from Gaia DR3. Most of these clusters are situated in the outer regions of the Galactic disc, encompassing structures such as the warp and the Outer arm. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Qian Cui , Zhihong He , Shunhong Deng , Liming Peng , Chunyan Li , Yangping Luo , Kun Wang

We present a new clustering method, Significance Mode Analysis (SigMA), to extract co-spatial and co-moving stellar populations from large-scale surveys such as ESA Gaia. The method studies the topological properties of the density field in…

The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) is a public, high-resolution spectroscopic survey with FLAMES@VLT. GES targeted in particular a large sample of open clusters (OCs) of all ages. The different kinds of OCs are useful to reach the main science…

In this study, we utilize photometric and kinematic data from \textit{Gaia} DR3 and the {\sc ASteCA} package to analyze the sparsely studied open clusters, King 2 and King 5. For King 2, we identify 340 probable members with membership…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-25 Aly Haroon , Waleed Elsanhoury , Essam Elkholy , Abdel naby Saad , Deniz Cennet Çınar

Traditional studies of stellar clusters in external galaxies use surface photometry and therefore focus on systems that are still bright and compact enough to be separated from the stellar background. Consequently, the latter stages of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anne Pellerin , Martin Meyer , Jason Harris , Daniela Calzetti

Context. Open clusters are groups of coeval stars sharing properties such as distance and metallicity, and they are key to understanding stellar evolution. Aims. Our main goal is to study the evolution of open clusters with a special focus…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-11 M. Žerjal , N. Lodieu , A. Pérez-Garrido , J. Olivares , V. J. S. Béjar , E. L. Martín

In this study, we investigate the fundamental astrophysical parameters of the old open cluster NGC 188 through two complementary methods: isochron-fitting and spectral energy distribution (SED) analysis. Using photometric, astrometric, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-11 Deniz Cennet Dursun , Seval Taşdemir , Seliz Koç , Srishti İyer

The ages of star clusters and co-moving stellar groups contain essential information about the Milky Way. Their special properties make them excellent tracers of galactic structure and key components to unlocking its star formation history.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-02 Alena Rottensteiner , Stefan Meingast

Open clusters are unique tracers of the history of our own Galaxy's disk. According to our membership analysis based on \textit{Gaia} astrometry, out of the 226 potential clusters falling in the footprint of GALAH or APOGEE, we find that…

We made a survey of the variable stars in a $13.2 \times 13.2$ arcmin$^2$ centered on the field of the Galactic bulge cluster NGC 6558. A total of 78 variables was found in the field of the cluster. Many of these variables are included in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-02 A. Arellano Ferro , L. J. Zerpa Guillen , M. A. Yepez , I. H. Bustos Fierro , Z. Prudil , C. E. Pérez Parra

This paper presents a deep investigation of two open clusters, Haffner 22 and Melotte 71, using astrometric and photometric data from Gaia EDR3. We identified 382 and 597 most probable cluster members with membership probability higher than…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 D. Bisht , Quingfeng Zhu , R. K. S. Yadav , Geeta Rangwal , Devesh P. Sariya , Alok Durgapal , Ing-Guey Jiang

Context. Observations indicate that the fraction of potential binary star clusters in the Milky Way is either the same or lower than that of the Magellanic Clouds. The unprecedented precision in the parallax measurements by Gaia has allowed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Fangfang Song , Ali Esamdin , Qingshun Hu , Mengfan Zhang

Open clusters (OCs) are common in the Milky Way, but most of them remain undiscovered. There are numerous techniques (e.g., machine-learning algorithms) available for the exploration of OCs. However, each method has its limitations and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-28 Zhongmu Li , Caiyan Mao

We review recent work that investigates the formation of stellar clusters, ranging in scale from globular clusters through open clusters to the small scale aggregates of stars observed in T associations. In all cases, recent advances in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cathie J. Clarke , Ian A. Bonnell , Lynne A. Hillenbrand

The analysis of the distribution of stars in open clusters may yield important information on the star formation process and early dynamical evolution of stellar clusters. Here we address this issue by systematically characterizing the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Nestor Sanchez , Emilio J. Alfaro

A number of stellar open cluster (OC) pairs in the Milky Way occupy similar positions in the phase space (coordinates, parallax and proper motions) and therefore may constitute physically interacting systems. The characterization of such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-12 M. S. Angelo , J. F. C. Santos , F. F. S. Maia , W. J. B. Corradi

By combining multi-band data from Gaia DR3, MWISP CO, and LAMOST DR11 LSR/MSR, we investigate the co-evolution of stars and their parent molecular cloud in a snake-like stellar structure, named Snake III. Based on 5-D phase-space selection,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-06 Jia-Peng Li , Hai-Jun Tian , Chen Wang , Xiang-Ming Yang , Fan Wang

We introduce a new kinematic method to investigate the structure of open star clusters. We adopt a hierarchical clustering algorithm that uses the celestial coordinates and the proper motions of the stars in the field of view of the cluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 Heng Yu , Zheng-Yi Shao , Antonaldo Diaferio , Lu Li

With the unprecedented increase of known star clusters, quick and modern tools are needed for their analysis. In this work, we develop an artificial neural network trained on synthetic clusters to estimate the age, metallicity, extinction,…