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The relationship between young stellar clusters and respective parental molecular clouds is still an open issue: for instance, are the similarities between substructures of clouds and clusters just a coincidence? Or would they be the…

The intracluster medium (ICM) in the far outskirts (r $>$ 2-3 R$_{200}$) of galaxy clusters interfaces with the intergalactic medium (IGM) and is theorized to comprise diffuse, multiphase gas. This medium may hold vital clues to clusters'…

Clusters of galaxies are important targets in observationally cosmology, as they can be used both to study the evolution of the galaxies themselves and to constrain cosmological parameters. Here we report on the first results of a major…

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

Currently clusters/associations of stars are mainly detected as surface density enhancements relative to the background field. While clusters form, their surface density increases. It likely decreases again at the end of the star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Susanne Pfalzner , Kirsten Vincke , Mai Xiang

We use the SDSS-Gaia Catalogue to identify six new pieces of halo substructure. SDSS-Gaia is an astrometric catalogue that exploits SDSS data release 9 to provide first epoch photometry for objects in the Gaia source catalogue. We use a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-25 G. C. Myeong , N. W. Evans , V. Belokurov , N. C. Amorisco , S. Koposov

Automated analysis of Gaia astrometric data has led to the discovery of many new high-quality open cluster candidates. With a good determination of their parameters, these objects become excellent tools to investigate the properties of our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Ignacio Negueruela , Abel de Burgos

A new method for a simultaneous search for clusters of galaxies in X-ray photon maps and optical galaxy maps is described. The merging of X-ray and optical data improves the source identification so that a large amount of telescope time for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter Schuecker , Hans Boehringer , Wolfgang Voges

We use a modified version of the halo-based group finder developed by Yang et al. to select galaxy groups from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS DR4). In the first step, a combination of two methods is used to identify the centers of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch , Anna Pasquali , Cheng Li , Marco Barden

Close to 100 per cent of massive stars are thought to be in binary systems. The multiplicity of massive stars seems to be intrinsically linked to their formation and evolution, and Massive Young Stellar Objects are key in observing this…

The peripheral regions of globular clusters (GCs) are extremely challenging to study due to their low surface brightness nature and the dominance of Milky Way contaminant populations along their sightlines. We have developed a probabilistic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 Pete B. Kuzma , Annette M. N. Ferguson , Jorge Peñarrubia

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…

Cosmological simulations are a powerful tool to advance our understanding of galaxy formation and many simulations model key properties of real galaxies. A question that naturally arises for such simulations in light of high-quality…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-10 Lingyi Zhou , Stefan T. Radev , William H. Oliver , Aura Obreja , Zehao Jin , Tobias Buck

In this work, starting from the well-accepted relations in literature, we introduce a new formalism to compute the astrometric membership probabilities for sources in star clusters, and we provide an application to the case of the open…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-07 M. Griggio , L. R. Bedin

Kinematic information is crucial for understanding the evolution of complex systems, such as interstellar gas. Obtaining full 3D kinematic information is a crucial final step for modeling and interpretation. Molecular clouds are nurseries…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-24 Ji-Xuan Zhou , Guang-Xing Li , Bing-Qiu Chen

Context. RR Lyrae stars are useful standard candles allowing one to derive accurate distances for old star clusters. Based on the recent catalogues from OGLE-IV and Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3), the distances can be improved for a few…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-26 R. A. P. Oliveira , S. Ortolani , B. Barbuy , L. O. Kerber , F. F. S. Maia , E. Bica , S. Cassisi , S. O. Souza , A. Pérez-Villegas

We present a study of six open clusters (Berkeley 67, King 2, NGC 2420, NGC 2477, NGC 2682 and NGC 6940) using the Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) aboard \textit{ASTROSAT} and \textit{Gaia} EDR3. We used combinations of astrometric,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-02 Vikrant V. Jadhav , Clara M. Pennock , Annapurni Subramaniam , Ram Sagar , Prasanta Kumar Nayak

Outlier detection and cluster number estimation is an important issue for clustering real data. This paper focuses on spectral clustering, a time-tested clustering method, and reveals its important properties related to outliers. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Takuro Ina , Atsushi Hashimoto , Masaaki Iiyama , Hidekazu Kasahara , Mikihiko Mori , Michihiko Minoh

The number of known star clusters, associations, and moving groups in the vicinity of the Sun has increased significantly due to the use of Gaia data. We investigated the existence and properties of open superclusters (OSC) within 500 pc of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-12 Juan Casado , Yasser Hendy , Nikola Faltova , Dana Kovaleva