Membership probabilities of Pleiades objects Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Olivares J.
  2. Sarro L.M.
  3. Moraux E.
  4. Berihuete A.
  5. Bouy H.,Hernandez-Jimenez S.
  6. Bertin E.
  7. Galli P.A.B.
  8. Huelamo N.
  9. Bouvier J.,Barrado D.
  10. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The photometric and astrometric measurements of the Pleiades DANCe DR2 survey provide an excellent test case for the benchmarking of statistical tools aiming at the disentanglement and characterisation of nearby young open cluster (NYOC) stellar populations. We aim to develop,test, and characterise of a new statistical tool (intelligent system) for the sifting and analysis of NYOC populations. Using a Bayesian formalism, with this statistical tool we were able to obtain the posterior distributions of parameters governing the cluster model. It also used hierarchical bayesian models to establish weakly informative priors, and incorporates the treatment of missing values and non-homogeneous (heteroscedastic) observational uncertainties. From simulations, we estimated that this statistical tool renders kinematic (proper motion) and photometric (luminosity) distributions of the cluster population with a contamination rate of 5.8+/-0.2%. The luminosity distributions and present day mass function agree with the ones found in a recent study, on the completeness interval of the survey. At the probability threshold of maximum accuracy, the classifier recovers ~90% of the recently published candidate members and finds 10% of new ones. A new statistical tool for the analysis of NYOC is introduced, tested, and characterised. Its comprehensive modelling of the data properties allows it to get rid of the biases present in previous works. In particular, those resulting from the use of only completely observed (non-missing) data and the assumption of homoskedastic uncertainties. Also, its Bayesian framework allows it to properly propagate observational uncertainties into membership probabilities and cluster velocity and luminosity distributions. Our results are in a general agreement with those from the literature, although we provide the most up-to-date and extended list of candidate members of the Pleiades cluster.

Keywords
  1. open-star-clusters
  2. astronomical-object-identification
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2018A&A...617A..15O
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/617/A15
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/617/A15
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.36170015

Access

Web browser access HTML
https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/617/A15
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/617/A15
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/617/A15
IVOA Table Access TAP
https://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/617/A15/table1?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/617/A15/table1?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/617/A15/table1?

History

2018-09-18T09:24:07Z
Resource record created
2018-09-18T09:24:07Z
Created
2019-04-18T11:30:22Z
Updated

Contact

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