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We systematically searched for open clusters in the solar neighborhood within 500 pc using pyUPMASK and HDBSCAN clustering algorithms based on {\it Gaia} DR3. Taking into consideration that the physical size for most open clusters is less…

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A rare multiple open cluster system has been analyzed using Gaia DR3 astrometry and photometry data. Using Agglomerative Hierarchical clustering and Bayesian-HDBSCAN, we identify a compact core consisting of seven known open clusters and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Muhammad Akmal Husain , Ferdinand , Mochamad Ikbal Arifyanto , Muhammad Irfan Hakim

Understanding which sources are present in an astronomical catalogue and which are not is crucial for the accurate interpretation of astronomical data. In particular, for the multidimensional Gaia data, filters and cuts on different…

Spectroscopy from the final internal data release of the Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) has been combined with Gaia EDR3 to assign membership probabilities to targets observed towards 63 Galactic open clusters and 7 globular clusters. The membership…

As groups of coeval stars born from the same molecular cloud, an Open cluster (OC) is an ideal laboratory for studying the structure and dynamical evolution of the Milky Way. The release of High-Precision Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Huanbin Chi , Feng Wang , Zhongmu Li

The Ophiuchus cloud complex is one of the best laboratories to study the earlier stages of the stellar and protoplanetary disc evolution. The wealth of accurate astrometric measurements contained in the Gaia Data Release 2 can be used to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 H. Cánovas , C. Cantero , L. Cieza , A. Bombrun , U. Lammers , B. Merín , A. Mora , Á. Ribas , D. Ruíz-Rodríguez

We report 1,656 new star clusters found in the Galactic disk (|b|<20 degrees) beyond 1.2 kpc, using Gaia EDR3 data. Based on an unsupervised machine learning algorithm, DBSCAN, and followed our previous studies, we utilized a unique method…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-28 Zhihong He , Xiaochen Liu , Yangping Luo , Kun Wang , Qingquan Jiang

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…

The census of open clusters has exploded in size thanks to data from the Gaia satellite. However, it is likely that many of these reported clusters are not gravitationally bound, making the open cluster census impractical for many…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-20 Emily L. Hunt , Sabine Reffert

Empirical constraints on the internal dynamics of open clusters are important for understanding their evolution and evaporation. High precision astrometry from Gaia DR3 are thus useful to observe aspects of the cluster dynamics. This work…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-03 Vikrant V. Jadhav , Pavel Kroupa , Wenjie Wu , Jan Pflamm-Altenburg , Ingo Thies

The particularly abundant presence of blue straggler stars (BSS) in Galactic open clusters offers favorable conditions for detailed studies on the statistical properties and the origin of the blue straggler population. With the help of Gaia…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-12 Chunyan Li , Jing Zhong , Songmei Qin , Li Chen

The publication of the Gaia Data Release 2 (Gaia DR2) opens a new era in Astronomy. It includes precise astrometric data (positions, proper motions and parallaxes) for more than $1.3$ billion sources, mostly stars. To analyse such a vast…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 A. Castro-Ginard , C. Jordi , X. Luri , F. Julbe , M. Morvan , L. Balaguer-Núñez , T. Cantat-Gaudin

Membership of stars in open clusters is one of the most crucial parameters in studies of star clusters. Gaia opened a new window in the estimation of membership because of its unprecedented 6-D data. In the present study, we used published…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 Md Mahmudunnobe , Priya Hasan , Mudasir Raja , S N Hasan

Reliable fundamental parameters of open clusters such as distance, age and extinction are key to our understanding of Galactic structure and stellar evolution. In this work we use {\it Gaia} DR2 to investigate 45 open clusters listed in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 H. Monteiro , W. S. Dias , A. Moitinho , T. Cantat-Gaudin , J. R. D. Lépine , G. , Carraro , E. Paunzen

The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) observed many open clusters as part of its programme to spectroscopically characterise the various Milky Way populations. GES spectroscopy and Gaia astrometry from its second data release are used here to assign…

The high-precision {\it Gaia} data release 3 (DR3) enables the discovery of numerous open clusters in the Milky Way, providing an excellent opportunity to search for blue straggler stars in open clusters and investigate their formation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Songmei Qin , Jing Zhong , Friedrich Anders , Lola Balaguer-Núñez , Chunyan Li , Yueyue Jiang , Guimei Liu , Tong Tang , Li Chen

Context. Open clusters are very good tracers of the evolution of the Galactic disc. Thanks to Gaia, their kinematics can be investigated with an unprecedented precision and accuracy. Aims. The distribution of open clusters in the 6D phase…

Very precise observational data are needed for studying the stellar cluster parameters (distance, reddening, age, metallicity) and cluster internal kinematics. In turn, these give us an insight into the properties of our Galaxy, for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-16 Martin Piecka , Ernst Paunzen

Interpreting and modelling astronomical catalogues requires an understanding of the catalogues' completeness or selection function: objects of what properties had a chance to end up in the catalogue. Here we set out to empirically quantify…

In our previous work, we introduced a method that combines two unsupervised algorithms: DBSCAN and GMM. We applied this method to 12 open clusters based on Gaia EDR3 data, demonstrating its effectiveness in identifying reliable cluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-18 Mohammad Noormohammadi , Mehdi Khakian Ghomi , Atefeh Javadi