English
Related papers

Related papers: Binary clusters in the Galactic disk I: Systematic…

200 papers

Depending on the stellar type, more than $\sim 50$\% and $\sim 15\%$ of stars in the field have at least one and two stellar companions, respectively. Hierarchical systems can be assembled dynamically in dense star clusters, as a result of…

The basic properties of the candidate binary cluster population in the Magellanic Clouds and Galaxy are similar. The fraction of candidate binary systems is $\sim$10% and the pair separation histogram exhibits a bimodal distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-05-28 Raúl de la Fuente Marcos , Carlos de la Fuente Marcos

Binary populations in young star clusters show multiplicity fractions both lower and up to twice as high as those observed in the Galactic field. We follow the evolution of a population of binary stars in dense and loose star clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Michael Marks , Pavel Kroupa

With the release of Gaia data, the number of known Galactic open clusters (OCs) has increased rapidly, providing an excellent opportunity to confirm more binary open clusters in the Milky Way. Using a recently released OC catalogue, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-28 Zhongmu Li , Zhanpeng Zhu

The majority of Galactic globular clusters (GCs) contain multiple stellar populations displaying specific chemical abundance variations. In particular, GCs generally contain a `primordial' population with abundances similar to field stars,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-01 E. Leitinger , H. Baumgardt , I. Cabrera-Ziri , M. Hilker , E. Pancino

Open clusters are key targets for both Galaxy structure and evolution and stellar physics studies. Since \textit{Gaia} DR2 publication, the discovery of undetected clusters has proven that our samples were not complete. Our aim is to…

Globular clusters (GCs), the oldest stellar systems observed in the Milky Way, have for long been considered single stellar populations. As such, they provided an ideal laboratory to understand stellar dynamics and primordial star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-06 Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti , Sergey Khoperskov , Paola Di Matteo , Misha Haywood

Members of widely-separated stellar binaries (> 0.1 pc) or loosely bound stellar associations and clusters are born with small spreads in kinematics and chemistry, but disrupt and dissociate on timescales comparable to their orbital time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Semyeong Oh , David N. Spergel

Context: This research presents unsupervised machine learning and statistical methods to identify and analyze tidal tails in open star clusters using data from the Gaia DR3 catalog. Aims: We aim to identify member stars and to detect and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Ira Sharma , Vikrant V. Jadhav , Annapurni Subramaniam , Henriette Wirth

Observations of young star-forming regions suggest that star clusters are born completely mass segregated. These initial conditions are, however, gradually lost as the star cluster evolves dynamically. For star clusters with single stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 Václav Pavlík

Observations indicate that the fraction of potential binary star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds is about 10%. In contrast, it is widely accepted that the binary cluster frequency in the Galaxy disk is much lower. Here we investigate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-08 R. de la Fuente Marcos , C. de la Fuente Marcos

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

Most of massive stars form in binary or higher-order systems in clumpy, sub-structured clusters. In the very first phases of their life, these stars are expected to interact with the surrounding environment, before being released to the…

Based on the Bica et al. (1999) catalogue we studied the star cluster system of the LMC and provide a new catalogue of all binary and multiple cluster candidates found. We performed Monte Carlo simulations and produced artificial cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrea Dieball , Hardo Mueller , Eva K. Grebel

M35 is a young open cluster and home to an extensive binary population. Using Gaia DR3, Pan-STARRS, and 2MASS photometry with the Bayesian statistical software, BASE-9, we derive precise cluster parameters, identify single and binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-12 Erin Motherway , Aaron M. Geller , Anna C. Childs , Claire Zwicker , Ted von Hippel

We report the discovery of 25 new open clusters resulting from a search in dense low galactic latitude fields. We also provide, for the first time, structural and astrophysical parameters for the new findings and 34 other recently…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Filipe A. Ferreira , J. F. C. Santos , W. J. B. Corradi , F. F. S. Maia , M. S. Angelo

I analyse the projected density distribution of member stars over a wide area surrounding 18 Galactic globular clusters using the photometric and astrometric information provided by the second data release of the Gaia mission. A 5D mixture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 A. Sollima

High sensitivity searches of globular clusters (GC) for radio pulsars by improved pulsar search algorithms and sustained pulsar timing observations have so far yielded some 140 pulsars in more than two dozen GCs. The observed distribution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Manjari Bagchi , Alak Ray

We postulate that most stars are born in aggregates of binary systems which are dynamically equivalent to the `dominant mode cluster'. The initial binary orbits are consitent with pre-main sequence data. Stellar masses are paired at random…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Pavel Kroupa

Galactic globular clusters are old, dense star systems typically containing 10\super{4}--10\super{7} stars. As an old population of stars, globular clusters contain many collapsed and degenerate objects. As a dense population of stars,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Matthew J. Benacquista , Jonathan M. B. Downing