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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…

Data from the Gaia satellite are revolutionising our understanding of the Milky Way. With every new data release, there is a need to update the census of open clusters. We aim to conduct a blind, all-sky search for open clusters using 729…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-17 Emily L. Hunt , Sabine Reffert

Membership studies characterising open clusters with Gaia data, most using DR2, are so far limited at magnitude G = 18 due to astrometric uncertainties at the faint end. Our goal is to extend current open cluster membership lists with faint…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-12 M. G. J. van Groeningen , A. Castro-Ginard , A. G. A. Brown , L. Casamiquela , C. Jordi

The improvements in the precision of the published data in \textit{Gaia} EDR3 with respect to \textit{Gaia} DR2, particularly for parallaxes and proper motions, offer the opportunity to increase the number of known open clusters in the…

The census of open clusters in the Milky Way is in a never-before seen state of flux. Recent works have reported hundreds of new open clusters thanks to the incredible astrometric quality of the Gaia satellite, but other works have also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Emily L. Hunt , Sabine Reffert

We report 541 new open cluster candidates in Gaia EDR3 through revisiting the cluster results from an earlier analysis of the Gaia DR2, which revealed nearly a thousand open cluster candidates in the solar neighborhood (mostly d < 3 kpc)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-18 Zhihong He , Chunyan Li , Jing Zhong , Guimei Liu , Leya Bai , Songmei Qin , Yueyue Jiang , Xi Zhang , Li Chen

Open clusters (OCs) are regarded as tracers to understand stellar evolution theory and validate stellar models. In this study, we presented a robust approach to identifying OCs. A hybrid method of pyUPMASK and RF is first used to remove…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Huanbin Chi , Shoulin Wei , Feng Wang , Zhongmu Li

Astrometry from Gaia DR3 has produced a sample of $\sim$170,000 Keplerian orbital solutions, with many more anticipated in the next few years. These data have enormous potential to constrain the population of binary stars, giant planets,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-05 Kareem El-Badry , Casey Lam , Berry Holl , Jean-Louis Halbwachs , Hans-Walter Rix , Tsevi Mazeh , Sahar Shahaf

Open clusters are convenient probes of the structure and history of the Galactic disk. They are also fundamental to stellar evolution studies. The second Gaia data release contains precise astrometry at the sub-milliarcsecond level and…

Open clusters are groups of stars that form at the same time, making them an ideal laboratory to test theories of star formation, stellar evolution, and dynamics in the Milky Way disk. However, the utility of an open cluster can be limited…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-12 Karl Jaehnig , Jonathan Bird , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

The astrometric satellite Gaia recently released part of its third data set, which provides a good opportunity to hunt for more open clusters in the Milky Way. In this work, we conduct a blind search for open clusters in the Galactic disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 C. J. Hao , Y. Xu , Z. Y. Wu , Z. H. Lin , D. J. Liu , Y. J. Li

In June 2022, the Gaia mission released a catalog of astrometric orbital solutions for 168,065 binary systems, by far the largest such catalog to date. The catalog's selection function is difficult to characterize because of choices made in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 Casey Y. Lam , Kareem El-Badry , Joshua D. Simon

The Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) provided an unprecedented volume of precise astrometric and excellent photometric data. In terms of data mining the Gaia catalogue, machine learning methods have shown to be a powerful tool, for instance in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-03 A. Castro-Ginard , C. Jordi , X. Luri , T. Cantat-Gaudin , L. Balaguer-Núñez

Open clusters have long been used to gain insights into the structure, composition, and evolution of the Galaxy. With the large amount of stellar data available for many clusters in the Gaia era, new techniques must be developed for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Steffi X. Yen , Sabine Reffert , Elena Schilbach , Siegfried Röser , Nina V. Kharchenko , Anatoly E. Piskunov

Star clusters are interesting laboratories to study star formation, single and binary stellar evolution, and stellar dynamics. We have used the exquisite data from $Gaia$'s data release 3 (DR3) to study 21 relatively rich and nearby open…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-03 Anindya Ganguly , Prasanta K. Nayak , Sourav Chatterjee

We present a novel approach for identifying members of open star clusters using Gaia DR3 data by combining Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) and Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) techniques. Our method employs a three-step process: initial filtering…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-11 Rafe Sharif , M. Khakian Ghomi , M. Taefi

Context. Most stars from in groups which with time disperse, building the field population of their host galaxy. In the Milky Way, open clusters have been continuously forming in the disk up to the present time, providing it with stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-08 Pedro Guilherme-Garcia , Alberto Krone-Martins , André Moitinho

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

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

Studying open clusters (OCs) is essential for a comprehensive understanding of the structure and evolution of the Milky Way. Many previous studies have systematically searched for OCs near the solar system within 1.2 kpc or 20 degrees of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-14 Huanbin Chi , Feng Wang , Wenting Wang , Hui Deng , Zhongmu Li
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