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We have compiled two new Galactic open cluster catalogues. The first one has 119 objects with age, distance and metallicity data, while the second one has 144 objects with both absolute proper motion and radial velocity data, of which 45…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Chen , J. L. Hou , J. J. Wang

Old open clusters (OCs) can constrain the chemical evolution of the Galactic disc through their metallicity gradients and age-metallicity relation but they are affected by low statistics. This work aims to determine precise and homogeneous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-23 Qingshun Hu , Caroline Soubiran

We study the metallicity distribution and evolution in the Galactic disk based on the largest sample of open star clusters in the Galaxy. From the catalogue of 1879 open clusters in the range of Galactocentric distance (R_GC) from 4 to 20…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-29 Yogesh C. Joshi , Deepak , Sagar Malhotra

A comparison is made between the age-metallicity relation obtained from four different types of studies: F and G stars in the Solar Neighbourhood, analysis of open clusters, galactic structure studies with the stellar population synthesis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Carraro , Y. K. Ng , L. Portinari

Open clusters are known as excellent tools for various topics in Galactic research. For example, they allow accurately tracing the chemical structure of the Galactic disc. However, the metallicity is known only for a rather low percentage…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 M. Netopil , E. Paunzen , U. Heiter , C. Soubiran

Radial migration is an important process in the evolution of the Galactic disk. The metallicity gradient of open clusters and its outliers provide an effective way to probe for this process. In this work, we compile metallicity, age, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 Haopeng Zhang , Yuqin Chen , Gang Zhao

During the last years and decades several individual studies and large-scale spectroscopic surveys significantly improved our knowledge of the Galactic metallicity distribution based on open clusters. The availability of Gaia data provided…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-09 Martin Netopil , İnci Akkaya Oralhan , Hikmet Çakmak , Raúl Michel , Yüksel Karataş

We review our work on Galactic open clusters in recent years, and introduce our proposed large program for the LOCS (LAMOST Open Cluster Survey). First, based on the most complete open clusters sample with metallicity, age and distance data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Chen , J. L. Hou , J. L. Zhao , R. de Grijs

Open clusters offer a unique possibility to study the time evolution of the radial metallicity gradients of several elements in our Galaxy, because they span large intervals in age and Galactocentric distance, and both quantities can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Laura Magrini , Paola Sestito , Sofia Randich , Daniele Galli

In this paper, we make use of data collected for open cluster members by high-resolution spectroscopic surveys and programmes (i.e., APOGEE, Gaia-ESO, GALAH, OCCASO, and SPA). These data have been homogenised and then analysed as a whole.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-02 Lorenzo Spina , Laura Magrini , Katia Cunha

The problem of the chemical composition gradient in the galactic disk is studied based on a sample of metallicity estimates of open star clusters, using Gaia DR2-improved distance estimates. A clearly non-monotonic variation was observed in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 A. V. Loktin , M. E. Popova

We present radial velocities and chemical abundances for nine stars in the old, distant open clusters Be 18, Be 21, Be 22, Be 32, and PWM 4. For Be 18 and PWM 4, these are the first chemical abundance measurements. Combining our data with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 David Yong , Bruce W. Carney , Eileen D. Friel

The vertical metallicity gradient of the Galactic disk offers valuable insights into the disk's formation and chemical evolution over time. We utilized the LAMOST-LRS young stellar sample to investigate this gradient and found that it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-03 Gaohuan Long , Haibo Yuan , Shuai Xu , Chun Wang , Ruoyi Zhang , Bowen Huang

Open clusters are unique tracers of the history of our own Galaxy's disk. According to our membership analysis based on \textit{Gaia} astrometry, out of the 226 potential clusters falling in the footprint of GALAH or APOGEE, we find that…

Having already reported on the first photometric study of the intermediate-age open cluster NGC 1883 (Carraro et al. 2003), we present in this paper the first spectroscopic multi-epoch investigation of a sample of evolved stars in the same…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Sandro Villanova , Gustavo Baume , Giovanni Carraro

We investigate the radial metallicity gradients and azimuthal metallicity distributions on the Galactocentric $X$--$Y$ plane using mono-temperature stellar populations selected from LAMOST MRS young stellar sample. The estimated radial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-14 Chun Wang , Haibo Yuan , Maosheng Xiang , Yuan-Sen Ting , Yang Huang , Xiaowei Liu

The distribution of stellar abundances along the Galactic disk is an important constraint for models of chemical evolution and Galaxy formation. In this study we derive radial gradients of C, N, O, Mg, Al, Si, as well as S, from abundance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Simone Daflon , Katia Cunha

A set of 76 open clusters with abundances based upon DDO photometry and/or moderate dispersion spectroscopy has been transformed to a common [Fe/H] scale and used to study the local structure and evolution of the galactic disk. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Bruce A. Twarog , Keith M. Ashman , Barbara J. Anthony-Twarog

We present accurate relative ages for a sample of 55 Galactic globular clusters. The ages have been obtained by measuring the difference between the horizontal branch and the turnoff in two, internally photometrically homogeneous databases.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 F. De Angeli , G. Piotto , S. Cassisi , G. Busso , A. Recio-Blanco , M. Salaris , A. Aparicio , A. Rosenberg

The nature of the metallicity gradient inside the solar circle (R_GC < 8 kpc) is poorly understood, but studies of Cepheids and a small sample of open clusters suggest that it steepens in the inner disk. We investigate the metallicity…

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