- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/469/1545
- Title:
- New compact star cluster candidates in GP
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/469/1545
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The sample of known star clusters, the fundamental building blocks of galaxies, in the Milky Way is still extremely incomplete for objects beyond a distance of 1-2kpc. Many of the more distant and young clusters are compact and hidden behind large amounts of extinction. We thus utilized the deep high-resolution near-infrared surveys UGPS and VVV to uncover so far unknown compact clusters and to analyse their properties. Images of all objects in the area covered by these two surveys, which are listed as galaxy in SIMBAD, have been inspected and 125 so far unknown stellar clusters and candidate clusters have been identified. Based on the frequent associations with star formation indicators (nebulosities, IRAS sources, HII regions, masers) we find that the typical cluster in our sample is young, at distances between 1-10 kpc and has a typical apparent radius of 25-arcsec. We suggest more systematic searches, e.g. at all positions of 2MASS extended sources to increase the completeness of the known cluster sample beyond distances of 2kpc.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/NewA/34.84
- Title:
- New Galactic embedded cluster candidates
- Short Name:
- J/other/NewA/34.
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We carried out a search for new infrared star clusters, stellar groups and candidates using WISE images, which are very sensitive to dust emission nebulae. We report the discovery of 437 embedded clusters and stellar groups that show a variety of structures, both in the stellar and nebular components. Pairs or small groupings of clusters are observed, suggesting multiple generations at the early formation stages. The resulting catalogue provides Galactic and equatorial coordinates, together with angular sizes for all objects. The nature of a representative test sub-sample of 14 clusters is investigated in detail by means of 2MASS photometry. The colour magnitude diagrams and radial density distributions characterise them as stellar clusters. The 437 new objects were found in the ranges 145{deg}<.l<=290{deg} and -25{deg}<=b<=20{deg}, and they appear to be a major object source for future studies of star cluster formation and their early evolution. WISE is a powerful tool to further probe for very young clusters throughout the disk.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/496/2021
- Title:
- New Galactic open clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/496/2021
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of 25 new open clusters resulting from a search in dense low galactic latitude fields. We also provide, for the first time, structural and astrophysical parameters for the new findings and 34 other recently discovered open clusters using Gaia DR2 data. The candidates were confirmed by jointly inspecting the vector point diagrams and spatial distribution. The discoveries were validated by matching near known objects and comparing their mean astrometric parameters with the available literature. A decontamination algorithm was applied to the three-dimensional astrometric space to derive membership likelihoods for clusters stars. By rejecting stars with low membership likelihoods, we built decontaminated colour-magnitude diagrams and derived the clusters astrophysical parameters by isochrone fitting. The structural parameters were also derived by King-profile fittings over the stellar distributions. The investigated clusters are mainly located within 3kpc from the Sun, with ages ranging from 30Myr to 3.2Gyr and reddening limited to E(B-V)=2.5. On average, our cluster sample presents less concentrated structures than Gaia DR2 confirmed clusters, since the derived core radii are larger while the tidal radii are not significantly different. Most of them are located in the IV quadrant of the Galactic disc at low latitudes, therefore they are immersed in dense fields characteristic of the inner Milky Way.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/455/3126
- Title:
- New Galactic star clusters and candidates
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/455/3126
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of 652 star clusters, stellar groups and candidates in the Milky Way with Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Most of the objects are projected close to Galactic plane and are embedded clusters. The present sample complements a similar study (Paper I, Bica et al., 2015, Cat. J/other/NewA/34.84) which provided 437 star clusters and alike. We find evidence that star formation processes span a wide range of sizes, from populous dense clusters to small compact embedded ones, sparse stellar groups or in relative isolation. The present list indicates multiple stellar generations during the embedded phase, with giant molecular clouds collapsing into several clumps composing an embedded cluster aggregate. We investigate the field star decontaminated colour-magnitude diagrams and radial density profiles of nine cluster candidates in the list, and derive their parameters, confirming them as embedded clusters.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PAZh/21/13
- Title:
- New list of OB associations
- Short Name:
- J/PAZh/21/13
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A new partition into associations of OB stars within 3kpc of the Sun is derived using Battinelli's modification of the cluster analysis method. We have found 58 associations, of which only 10% may be considered as a random clusters of field stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/245/32
- Title:
- Newly identified star clusters in Gaia DR2
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/245/32
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the Star cluster Hunting Pipeline (SHiP) that can identify star clusters in Gaia second data release (DR2) data and establish a star cluster catalog for the Galactic disk. A friend-of-friend-based cluster finder method is used to identify star clusters using five-dimensional stellar parameters, l,b,{omega},{mu}_{alpha}_cos{delta}, and {mu}_{delta}_. Our new catalog contains 2443 star cluster candidates identified from disk stars located within |b|=25{deg} and with G<18mag. An automatic isochrone fitting scheme is applied to all cluster candidates. With a combination of parameters obtained from isochrone fitting, we classify cluster candidates into three classes (Class 1, 2, and 3). Class 1 clusters are the most probable star cluster candidates with the most stringent criteria. Most of these clusters are nearby (within 4kpc). Our catalog is crossmatched with three Galactic star cluster catalogs, Kharchenko+ (2013, J/A+A/558/A53), Cantat-Gaudin+ (2018, J/A+A/618/A93 and 2019, J/A+A/624/A126), and Bica+ (2019, J/AJ/157/12). The proper motion and parallax of matched star clusters are in good agreement with these earlier catalogs. We discover 76 new star cluster candidates that are not listed in these three catalogs. The majority of these are clusters older than log(age/yr)=8.0 and are located in the inner disk with |b|<5{deg}. The recent discovery of new star clusters suggests that current Galactic star cluster catalogs are still incomplete. Among the Class 1 cluster candidates, we find 56 candidates for star cluster groups.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/63/135
- Title:
- New OGLEIII dwarf novae in Galactic disk
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/63/135
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the discovery of forty erupting cataclysmic variable stars in the OGLE-III Galactic disk fields: seventeen objects of U Gem type, four of Z Cam type, and nineteen stars showing outbursts and superoutbursts typical for SU UMa type dwarf novae. In the case of five stars we were able to estimate their supercycle lengths. The obtained lengths are in the range of 20-90 d, generally between the typical SU UMa type variables and a few objects classified as the ER UMa type variables. Since there is no significant difference between the two types but a higher mass-transfer rate resulting in more frequent outbursts and superoutbursts in the ER UMa type stars, we propose to discard this type as a separate class of variables. We note that in one of the SU UMa type stars, OGLE-GD-DN-039, we found a negative supercycle period change, in contrast to other active systems of this type. Two of the new OGLE objects showed long-duration WZ Sge-like superoutbursts followed by a sequence of echo outbursts. All stars reported in this paper are part of the OGLE-III Catalog of Variable Stars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/RAA/21.93
- Title:
- 74 new open clusters found in Gaia DR2
- Short Name:
- J/other/RAA/21.9
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Based on astrometric data from Gaia Data-Release 2 (DR2), we employ an un- supervised machine learning method to blindly search for open star clusters in the Milky Way within the Galactic latitude range of |b|<20degree. In addition to 2080known clusters, 74 new open cluster candidates are found. In this work, we present the positions, apparent radii, parallaxes, proper motions and member stars of these candidates. Meanwhile, to obtain the physical parameters of each candidate cluster, stellar isochrones are fit to the photometric data. The results show that the apparent radii and the observed proper motion dispersions of these new candidates are consistent with those of open clusters previously identified in Gaia DR2.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/627/A35
- Title:
- New open clusters in Galactic anti-centre
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/627/A35
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Gaia Data Release 2 (DR2) provided an unprecedented volume of precise astrometric and excellent photometric data. In terms of data mining the Gaia catalogue, machine learning methods have shown to be a powerful tool, for instance in the search for unknown stellar structures. Particularly, supervised and unsupervised learning methods combined together significantly improves the detection rate of open clusters. We systematically scan Gaia DR2 in a region covering the Galactic anticentre and the Perseus arm (120{deg}<=l<=205{deg} and -10{deg}<=b<=10{deg}), with the goal of finding any open clusters that may exist in this region, and fine tuning a previously proposed methodology and successfully applied to TGAS data, adapting it to different density regions. Our methodology uses an unsupervised, density-based, clustering algorithm, DBSCAN, that identifies overdensities in the five-dimensional astrometric parameter space (l, b, {varpi}, pmRA*, pmDE) that may correspond to physical clusters. The overdensities are separated into physical clusters (open clusters) or random statistical clusters using an artificial neural network to recognise the isochrone pattern that open clusters show in a colour magnitude diagram. The method is able to recover more than 75% of the open clusters confirmed in the search area. Moreover, we detected 53 open clusters unknown previous to Gaia DR2, which represents an increase of more than 22% with respect to the already catalogued clusters in this region. We find that the census of nearby open clusters is not complete. Different machine learning methodologies for a blind search of open clusters are complementary to each other; no single method is able to detect 100% of the existing groups. Our methodology has shown to be a reliable tool for the automatic detection of open clusters, designed to be applied to the full Gaia DR2 catalogue.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/443/2327
- Title:
- New proper motion objects from UKIDSS GPS
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/443/2327
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey (GPS) began in 2005 as a seven year effort to survey ~1800deg^2^ of the northern Galactic plane in the J, H, and K passbands. The survey included a second epoch of K-band data, with a baseline of two to eight years, for the purpose of investigating variability and measuring proper motions. We have calculated proper motions for 167 million sources in a 900deg^2^ area located at l>60{deg} in order to search for new high proper motion objects. Visual inspection has verified 617 high proper motion sources (>200mas/yr) down to K=17, of which 153 are new discoveries. Among these, we have a new spectroscopically confirmed T5 dwarf, an additional T dwarf with estimated type T6, 13 new L dwarf candidates, and two new common proper motion systems containing ultracool dwarf candidates. We provide improved proper motions for an additional 12 high proper motion stars that were independently discovered in the WISE data set during the course of this investigation.
