OB Associations and their origins

NJ Wright - New Astronomy Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
OB associations are unbound groups of young stars made prominent by their bright OB
members, and have long been thought to be the expanded remnants of dense star clusters …

A new method for unveiling open clusters in Gaia-New nearby open clusters confirmed by DR2

A Castro-Ginard, C Jordi, X Luri, F Julbe… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Context. 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) …

[HTML][HTML] Expanding associations in the Vela-Puppis region-3D structure and kinematics of the young population

T Cantat-Gaudin, C Jordi, NJ Wright… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Context. The Vela-Puppis region is known to host the Vela OB2 association as well as
several young clusters featuring OB and pre-main-sequence stars. Several spatial and …

Lacewing: A new moving group analysis code

AR Riedel, SC Blunt, EL Lambrides… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new nearby young moving group (NYMG) kinematic membership analysis
code, LocAting Constituent mEmbers In Nearby Groups (LACEwING), a new Catalog of …

Census of ρ Ophiuchi candidate members from Gaia Data Release 2

H Cánovas, C Cantero, L Cieza, A Bombrun… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Context. 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 …

A ring in a shell: the large-scale 6D structure of the Vela OB2 complex

T Cantat-Gaudin, M Mapelli, L Balaguer-Núñez… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Context. The Vela OB2 association is a group of∼ 10 Myr stars exhibiting a complex spatial
and kinematic substructure. The all-sky Gaia DR2 catalogue contains proper motions …

Cosmography of OB stars in the solar neighbourhood

H Bouy, J Alves - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2015 - aanda.org
We construct a 3D map of the spatial density of OB stars within 500 pc from the Sun using
the Hipparcos catalogue and find three large-scale stream-like structures that allow a new …

Gaia DR2 distances to Collinder 419 and NGC 2264 and new astrometric orbits for HD 193 322 Aa, Ab and 15 Mon Aa, Ab

JM Apellániz - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2019 - aanda.org
Context. On the one hand, the second data release of the Gaia mission (Gaia DR2) has
opened a trove of astrometric and photometric data for Galactic clusters within a few …

The structure and 3D kinematics of vela OB2

JJ Armstrong, NJ Wright, RD Jeffries… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The kinematics of stars in OB associations can provide insights into their formation,
dynamical evolution, and eventual fate. The low-mass stellar content of OB associations are …

Gaia eclipsing binary and multiple systems. A study of detectability and classification of eclipsing binaries with Gaia

A Kochoska, N Mowlavi, A Prša, I Lecoeur-Taïbi… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Context. In the new era of large-scale astronomical surveys, automated methods of analysis
and classification of bulk data are a fundamental tool for fast and efficient production of …