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Spectra of galaxies contain an enormous amount of information about the relative mixture of ages and metallicities of constituent stars. We present a comprehensive study designed to extract the maximum information from spectra of data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Marsha J. Wolf , Niv Drory , Karl Gebhardt , Gary J. Hill

Context. Since the first publication of the Gaia catalogue a new view of our Galaxy has arrived. Its astrometric and photometric information has improved the precision of the physical parameters of open star clusters obtained from them.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-28 Jeison Alfonso , Alejandro García-Varela , Katherine Vieira

In the quest for the formation and evolution of galaxy clusters, Rakos and co-workers introduced a spectrophotometric method using the modified Str\"omgren photometry. But with the considerable debate toward the project's abilities, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-01-12 Yuvraj Harsha Sreedhar , Andrew P. Odell , Karl D. Rakos , Gerhard Hensler , Werner W. Zeilinger

The Gaia DR3 GSP-Spec parameters, including metallicity, for VMP stars suffer from parameter degeneracy due to a lack of information in their spectra. Furthermore, the recommended quality cuts filter out the majority of the VMP stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-07 Tadafumi Matsuno , Else Starkenburg , Eduardo Balbinot , Amina Helmi

Context. Currently galactic exploration is being revolutionized by a flow of new data: Gaia provides measurements of stellar distances and kinematics; growing numbers of spectroscopic surveys provide values of stellar atmospheric parameters…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Alexey Mints , Saskia Hekker

The distribution of member stars in the surroundings of an Open Cluster (OC) can shed light on the process of its formation, evolution and dissolution. The analysis of structural parameters of OCs as a function of their age and position in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Y. Tarricq , C. Soubiran , L. Casamiquela , A. Castro-Ginard , J. Olivares , N. Miret-Roig , P. A. B. Galli

This study provides a detailed examination of the structural, astrophysical, kinematic, and dynamical properties of the open clusters COIN-Gaia 24, Czernik 24, FSR 0893, and UBC 74, which are located in the direction opposite to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-27 Selçuk Bilir , Seval Taşdemir , Ege Eraydın , Deniz Cennet Çınar , Jeison Alfonso , Remziye Canbay

In this paper, we explore the feasibility of using machine learning regression as a method of extracting basic stellar parameters and line-of-sight extinctions from spectro-photometric data. We built a stable gradient-boosted random-forest…

We search for an optimal filter design for the estimation of stellar metallicity, based on synthetic photometry from Gaia XP spectra convolved with a series of filter-transmission curves defined by different central wavelengths and…

The recent Gaia Data Release 1 of stellar parallaxes provides ample opportunity to find metal-poor main-sequence stars with precise parallaxes. We select 21 such stars with parallax uncertainties better than $\sigma_\pi/\pi\leq0.10$ and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Erin M. O'Malley , Christina Gilligan , Brian Chaboyer

We present a homogeneous catalog of 1,232 open clusters with precisely determined ages, metallicities, distances, extinctions, and stellar mass function (MF) slopes, derived from Gaia DR3 data. The parameters are inferred using the Mixture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-28 Lu Li , Zhengyi Shao , Zhaozhou Li , Xiaoting Fu

We describe the methodologies that, taking advantage of Gaia-DR1 and the Gaia-ESO Survey data, enable the comparison of observed open star cluster sequences with stellar evolutionary models. The final, long-term goal is the exploitation of…

This paper provides a detailed comparison of the differences in parameters derived for a star cluster from its color-magnitude diagrams depending on the filters and models used. We examine the consistency and reliability of fitting three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Shane Hills , Ted von Hippel , Stephane Courteau , Aaron M. Geller

Open clusters are known as excellent tracers of the structure and chemical evolution of the Galactic disk, however, the accuracy and reliability of open cluster parameters is poorly known. In recent years, several studies aimed to present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 M. Netopil , E. Paunzen , G. Carraro

In the era of large spectroscopic surveys, massive databases of high-quality spectra provide tools to outline a new picture of our Galaxy. In this framework, an important piece of information is provided by our ability to infer stellar…

We design an uncertainty-aware cost-sensitive neural network (UA-CSNet) to estimate metallicities from dereddened and corrected Gaia BP/RP (XP) spectra for giant stars. This method accounts for both stochastic errors in the input spectra…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-09 Lin Yang , Haibo Yuan , Bowen Huang , Ruoyi Zhang , Timothy C. Beers , Kai Xiao , Shuai Xu , Yang Huang , Maosheng Xiang , Meng Zhang , Jinming Zhang

In this study, we extend the dust-independent Hatzidimitriou (1991) relation between cluster age and $d_{B-R}$ color difference between the red giant branch (RGB) and red clump to younger cluster ages. We perform membership analysis on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-06 Abigail R. Chriss , Guy Worthey

Open clusters have long been used as tracers of Galactic structure. However, without a selection function to describe the completeness of the cluster census, it is difficult to quantitatively interpret their distribution. We create a method…

The Galactic globular cluster system is incomplete, especially in the low latitude regions of the Galactic bulge and disk. We report the physical characterization of twelve star clusters in the Milky Way, most of which are explored here for…