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We found 50 new globular cluster (GC) candidates around M\,31 with Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3), with the help from Pan-STARRS1 DR1 magnitudes and Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey (PAndAS) images. Based on the latest Revised Bologna…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-21 Yilun Wang , Haibo Yuan , Bingqiu Chen , Xinlei Chen , Hao Wu , Zexi Niu , Jifeng Liu

Recent studies have identified star clusters with multiple components based on accurate spatial distributions and/or proper motions from Gaia DR3, utilising diverse diagnostics to improve our understanding of subgroup evolution. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 J. Gregorio-Hetem , A. Hetem

We present a phase-space study of two stellar groups located at the core of the Orion complex: Brice\~no-1 and Orion Belt Population-near (OBP-near). We identify the groups with the unsupervised clustering algorithm, Shared Nearest Neighbor…

We combine GALEX and Gaia DR2 catalogs to track star formation in the outskirts of our Galaxy. Using photometry, proper motions and parallaxes we identify a structure of ~ 300 OB-type candidates located between 12 and 15 kpc from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu , Terrence M. Girard

We explore the three-dimensional structure of a sample of $\sim$ 16000 young giant stars in the Galactic disc out to $\sim$8 kpc in heliocentric distance. This population traces a thin disc with a local vertical scale height of $h_{Z \odot}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-14 E. Poggio , R. Drimmel , S. Khanna , R. Andrae , M. G. Lattanzi

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

A comprehensive census of Galactic open cluster properties places unique constraints on the Galactic disc structure and evolution. In this framework we investigate the evolutionary status of three poorly-studied open clusters, Berkeley 31,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Michele Cignoni , Giacomo Beccari , Angela Bragaglia , Monica Tosi

Context. Observations indicate that the fraction of potential binary star clusters in the Milky Way is either the same or lower than that of the Magellanic Clouds. The unprecedented precision in the parallax measurements by Gaia has allowed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Fangfang Song , Ali Esamdin , Qingshun Hu , Mengfan Zhang

A photometric and astrometric study of the two open star clusters Gulliver 18 and Gulliver 58 was carried out for the first time using the early third data release of the Gaia space observatory (Gaia-EDR3). By studying the proper motions,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-12 Ashraf Tadross , Eslam Elhosseiny

Thanks to the precise astrometric measurements of proper motions by the Gaia mission, a new tidal stellar stream has been discovered in the northern hemisphere. The distribution of star count shows that the stream is approximately $80$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-09 Hao Tian , Chao Liu , Changqing Luo , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Yujiao Yang

We combine Gaia DR3 5-parameter astrometry with calibrated radial velocities for 23 nearby (<1 kpc) young (<60 Myr) clusters, with membership lists from Cantat-Gaudin et al. (2020). We characterise the plane-of-sky structure of the clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-10 Joseph J. Armstrong , Jonathan C. Tan

We performed a statistical study of two old open clusters NGC 188 and M 67 using Gaia DR3 data. No tidal tails of the clusters were detected, which most likely had been destroyed when the cluster passed through the Galactic plane. The size…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-16 Anton F. Seleznev , Maxim V. Kulesh

We homogeneously measured the elliptical shapes of 163 globular clusters (GCs) using the on-sky distribution of their cluster members and the third data release of the ESA mission Gaia (DR3). The astrometry enables the differentiation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-02 Mauricio Cruz Reyes , Richard I. Anderson

Identifying the young optically visible population in a star-forming region is essential for fully understanding the star formation event. In this paper, We identify 211 candidate members of the Perseus molecular cloud based on Gaia…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-07 Xiao-Long Wang , Min Fang , Yu Gao , Hong-Xin Zhang , Gregory J. Herczeg , Hong-Jun Ma , En Chen , Xing-Yu Zhou

In this study, we examined the nearby open clusters (OCs) Alessi 36 and Collinder 135. Their spatial proximity was assessed using photometric and astrometric data from \textit{Gaia} DR3. Likely member stars were identified based on a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-19 Hülya Karagöz , Deniz Cennet Çınar , Seval Taşdemir , Remziye Canbay

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

We present the discovery of new star clusters in the central plane region ($|l|<30\deg$ and $|b|<6\deg$) of the Milky Way. In order to overcome the extinction problem and the spatial limit of previous surveys, we use the Wide-field Infrared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-18 Jinhyuk Ryu , Myung Gyoon Lee

We present a BVI photometric study of four old open clusters (OCs) in the Milky Way Galaxy, Czernik 30, Berkeley 34, Berkeley 75, and Berkeley 76 using the observation data obtained with the SMARTS 1.0 m telescope at the CTIO, Chile. These…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-25 Hyobin Im , Sang Chul Kim , Jaemann Kyeong , Hong Soo Park , Joon Hyeop Lee

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

We report the detection of a young stellar population ($\leq$100 Myrs) in the ba ckground of 9 young open clusters belonging to a homogenoeous sample of 30 star clusters in the Third Galactic Quadrant (at $217^o \leq l \leq 260^o$). Deep…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Giovanni Carraro , Ruben Vazquez , Andre Moitinho , Gustavo Baume