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We present a new method for the evaluation of the age and age-spread among pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars in star-forming regions in the Magellanic Clouds, accounting simultaneously for photometric errors, unresolved binarity, differential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Nicola Da Rio , Dimitrios A. Gouliermis , Mario Gennaro

We built Galactic open star cluster mass functions (CMFs) for different age sub-samples in the wider solar neighbourhood. We present a simple cluster formation and evolution model to reproduce the main features of the CMFs. We used an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-26 Andreas Just , Anatoly E. Piskunov , Jonathan H. Klos , Dana A. Kovaleva , Evgeny V. Polyachenko

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…

Using up-to-date stellar models and isochrones we determine the age of 25 galactic halo clusters. The clusters are distributed into four groups according to metallicity. We measure the absolute age of a reference cluster in each group, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maurizio Salaris , Achim Weiss

The processes of star formation and feedback, regulating the cycle of matter between gas and stars on the scales of giant molecular clouds (GMCs; $\sim$100pc), play a major role in governing galaxy evolution. Measuring the time-scales of…

Next-generation surveys are expected to uncover thousands of globular cluster (GC) stellar streams, motivating the need for a theoretical framework that produces realistic GC streams in a fully cosmological, Milky Way-like environment. We…

We apply the automatic stellar stream detection algorithm StarStream to Gaia Data Release 3 and identify 87 stellar streams associated with Galactic globular clusters (GCs), including 34 high-quality cases with median completeness and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-02 Yingtian Chen , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Adrian M. Price-Whelan

The all-sky Milky Way Star Clusters (MWSC) survey provides uniform and precise ages and other parameters for a variety of clusters in the Solar Neighbourhood. We construct the cluster age distribution, investigate its spatial variations,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 A. E. Piskunov , A. Just , N. V. Kharchenko , P. Berczik , R. -D. Scholz , S. Reffert , S. X. Yen

Rotation periods are increasingly being used to derive ages for cool single field stars. Such ages are based on an empirical understanding of how cool stars spin down, acquired by constructing color-period diagrams (CPDs) for a series of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-03 Sydney A. Barnes , Jörg Weingrill , Thomas Granzer , Federico Spada , Klaus G. Strassmeier

We exploit the most robust, old, and cosmology-independent age estimates of individual stars from Gaia DR3 to place a lower bound on the age of the Universe, $t_U$. These constraints can serve as an anchor point for any cosmological model,…

We extend our previous method to determine globular cluster ages using the luminosity function (Jimenez \& Padoan 1996). We show that the luminosity function depends on both age and distance modulus and that it is possible to distinguish…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Paolo Padoan , Raul Jimenez

The origin of extended main-sequence turn-offs (eMSTO) in star clusters younger than 2 Gyr still challenges our current understanding of stellar evolution. Exploiting data from Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3), we investigate eMSTOs in a large…

Stellar evolution theory has been extraordinarily successful at explaining the different phases under which stars form, evolve and die. While the strongest constraints have traditionally come from binary stars, the advent of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-12 D. Valls-Gabaud

Of the many discoveries uncovered by the Gaia astrometric mission, some of the most exciting are related to nearby dispersed stellar structures. We analyze one such structure in the Milky Way disk, OCSN-49, a coeval stellar stream with 257…

The study of pulsar glitch phenomena serves as a valuable probe into the dynamic properties of matter under extreme high-density conditions, offering insights into the physics within neutron stars. Providing theoretical explanations for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-07 Pei-Xin Zhu , Xiao-Ping Zheng

Asteroseismology of solar-like oscillations in giant stars allow the derivation of their masses and radii. For members of open clusters this allows an age estimate of the cluster which should be identical to the age estimate from the…

Based on a new large, homogeneous photometric database of 35 Galactic globular clusters (GGCs), a set of distance and reddening independent relative age indicators has been measured. The observed D(V-I)_2.5 and D(V)(HB-TO) vs. metallicity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Rosenberg , I. Saviane , G. Piotto , A. Aparicio

We provide a new measurement of the expansion history of the Universe at $z=0.54$ with the cosmic chronometers (CC) method, exploiting the high-quality spectroscopic VLT/MUSE data for three galaxy clusters in close-by redshift bins: SDSS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 E. Tomasetti , M. Moresco , G. Granata , M. D'Addona , P. Bergamini , C. Grillo , A. Mercurio , P. Rosati , A. Cimatti , L. Tortorelli , S. Schuldt , M. Meneghetti

The dominant systematic uncertainty in the age determination of galactic globular clusters is the depth of the convection envelope of the stars. This parameter is partially degenerate with metallicity which is in turn degenerate with age.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-24 David Valcin , Raul Jimenez , Licia Verde , Jose Luis Bernal , Benjamin D. Wandelt