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We report on a UV-oriented imaging survey in the fields of the old, metal-rich open clusters, NGC 6791, NGC 6819 and NGC 7142. These three clusters represent both very near and ideal stellar aggregates to match the distinctive properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Carraro , A. Buzzoni , E. Bertone , L. Buson

We analyze the morphological evolution of open clusters and provide shape parameters for 265 open clusters. The results show that the overall shape of sample clusters becomes more elliptical as they grow older, while their core remains…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-05 Qingshun Hu , Yu Zhang , Ali Esamdin , Jinzhong Liu , Xiangyun Zeng

Abundance trends in heavier elements with evolutionary phase have been shown to exist in the globular cluster NGC 6752 [Fe/H]=-1.6. These trends are a result of atomic diffusion and additional (non-convective) mixing. Studying such trends…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Pieter Gruyters , Thomas Nordlander , Andreas J. Korn

Deep F555W and F814W Hubble Space Telescope ACS images are the basis for a study of the present day mass function (PDMF) of NGC346, the largest active star forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We find a PDMF slope of…

We derived surface brightness profiles in the \emph{g} band for 170 Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) star clusters (SCs) mainly located in the central region of the galaxy. We provide a set of homogeneous structural parameters obtained by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 M. Gatto , V. Ripepi , M. Bellazzini , M. Tosi , M. Cignoni , C. Tortora , S. Leccia , G. Clementini , E. K. Grebel , G. Longo , M. Marconi , I. Musella

The evolution of star clusters is studied using N-body simulations in which the evolution of single stars and binaries are taken self-consistently into account. Initial conditions are chosen to represent relatively young Galactic open…

We present a wide field CCD photometric study of Galactic globular cluster NGC 7492. The derived VR color-magnitude diagram extends down to about 3.5 mag below the cluster main sequence turn-off. The field covers 42' X 42' about 3 times…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kang Hwan Lee , Hyung Mok Lee , Gregory G. Fahlman , Hwankyung Sung

We present the first evidence of clear signatures of tidal distortions in the density distribution of the fascinating open cluster NGC~6791. We find that the 2D density map shows a clear elongation and an irregular distribution starting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-03 Giovanni Carraro , Emanuele Dalessandro

We present N-body models to complement deep imaging of the metal-poor core-collapsed cluster NGC6397 obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. All simulations include stellar and binary evolution in-step with the stellar dynamics and…

We measure how the slope $\alpha$ of the stellar mass function (MF) changes as a function of clustercentric distance $r$ in five Galactic globular clusters and compare $\alpha(r)$ to predictions from direct $N$-body star cluster…

We review the complications involved in the conversion of stellar luminosities into masses and apply a range of mass-to-luminosity relations to our Hubble Space Telescope observations of the young LMC star clusters NGC 1805 and NGC 1818.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. de Grijs , G. F. Gilmore , R. A. Johnson , A. D. Mackey

The stellar content of Galactic open clusters is gradually depleted during their evolution as a result of internal relaxation and external interactions. The final residues of the evolution of open clusters are called open cluster remnants,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-03 M. S. Angelo , J. F. C. Santos , W. J. B. Corradi , F. F. S. Maia

Globular clusters (GCs) are particularly efficient at forming millisecond pulsars. Among these pulsars, about half lack a companion star, a significantly higher fraction than in the Galactic field. This fraction increases further in some of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-23 Claire S. Ye , Kyle Kremer , Scott M. Ransom , Frederic A. Rasio

We revisit the hypothesis that dense galactic nuclei are formed from inspiraling globular clusters. Recent advances in understanding of the continuous formation of globular clusters over cosmic time and the concurrent evolution of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Oleg Y. Gnedin , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Scott Tremaine

In this paper we study the evolution of core and corona of nine open clusters using the projected radial density profiles derived from homogeneous CCD photometric data obtained through the 105-cm Kiso Schmidt telescope. The age and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Sharma , A. K. Pandey , K. Ogura , H. Mito , K. Tarusava , R. Sagar

We present the results from realistic N-body modelling of massive star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds. We have computed eight simulations with N ~ 10^5 particles; six of these were evolved for at least a Hubble time. The aim of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. D. Mackey , M. I. Wilkinson , M. B. Davies , G. F. Gilmore

We determined astrophysical and dynamical parameters of the open clusters (OCs) NGC 2587, Collinder 268 (Col 268), Melotte 72 (Mel 72), and Pismis 7 from Gaia DR2 photometric/astrometric data and a new technique, fitCMD. fitCMD provides (Z,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Hikmet Çakmak , Orhan Güneş , Yüksel Karataş , Charles Bonatto

In this paper, we present surface brightness profiles for 79 globular clusters in M31, using images observed with {\it Hubble Space Telescope}, some of which are from new observations. The structural and dynamical parameters are derived…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Song Wang , Jun Ma

We have compiled a pseudo-snapshot data set of two-colour observations from the Hubble Space Telescope archive for a sample of 53 rich LMC clusters with ages 10^6-10^10 yr. We present surface brightness profiles for the entire sample, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Mackey , G. F. Gilmore

A combination of two unsupervised machine learning algorithms, DBSCAN and GMM are used to find members with a high probability of twelve open clusters, M38, NGC2099, Coma Ber, NGC752, M67, NGC2243, Alessi01, Bochum04, M34, M35, M41, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-30 Mohammad Noormohammadi , Mehdi Khakian Ghomi , Hossein Haghi