A Gaia DR2 view of the open cluster population in the Milky Way

T Cantat-Gaudin, C Jordi, A Vallenari… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Context. 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 …

Clusters and mirages: cataloguing stellar aggregates in the Milky Way

T Cantat-Gaudin, F Anders - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Many of the open clusters listed in modern catalogues were initially reported by
visual astronomers as apparent overdensities of bright stars. As observational techniques …

The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS): improved SEDs, morphologies, and redshifts with 12 optical filters

C Mendes de Oliveira, T Ribeiro… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS) is imaging∼ 9300
deg2 of the celestial sphere in 12 optical bands using a dedicated 0.8 m robotic telescope …

The spiral structure in the Solar neighborhood

LG Hou - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The spiral structure in the solar neighborhood is an important issue in astronomy. In the past
few years, there has been significant progress in observation. The distances for a large …

[HTML][HTML] The Gaia-ESO Survey: Calibrating the lithium–age relation with open clusters and associations-I. Cluster age range and initial membership selections

MLG Albarrán, D Montes, MG Garrido… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Previous studies of open clusters have shown that lithium depletion is not only
strongly age dependent but also shows a complex pattern with other parameters that is not …

Exploring the Chemistry and Mass Function of the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae with New Theoretical Color–Magnitude Diagrams

R Gerasimov, AJ Burgasser, I Caiazzo… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Despite their shared origin, members of globular clusters display star-to-star variations in
composition. The observed pattern of element abundances is unique to these stellar …

Long-term Spectroscopic Survey of the Pleiades Cluster: The Binary Population

G Torres, DW Latham, SN Quinn - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a spectroscopic monitoring program of the Pleiades region aimed
at completing the census of spectroscopic binaries in the cluster, extending it to longer …

Alert classification for the alerce broker system: The anomaly detector

M Perez-Carrasco, G Cabrera-Vives… - The Astronomical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Astronomical broker systems, such as Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of
Events (ALeRCE), are currently analyzing hundreds of thousands of alerts per night …

The origin of early-type runaway stars from open clusters

A Bhat, A Irrgang, U Heber - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022 - aanda.org
Runaway stars are ejected from their place of birth in the Galactic disk, with some young B-
type runaways found several tens of kiloparsecs from the plane traveling at speeds beyond …

TESS observations of Be stars: a new interpretation

LA Balona, D Ozuyar - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Light curves of 57 classical Be stars in TESS sectors 1–15 are examined. In most Be stars,
the periodogram shows groups at a fundamental and one or more harmonics, which we …