Metallicities of old open clusters Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Hu Q
  2. Soubiran C.
  3. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We determined precise and homogeneous metallicities for old open clusters (>=500Myr) from all-sky catalogues of stellar parameters leveraging Gaia spectrophotometry. Our purpose was to revisit the metallicity distribution of the oldest open clusters as a function of their Galactic position and age with improved statistics. Several catalogues of stellar parameters have been cross-matched to the most recent census of open clusters and their members. Median metallicities per cluster and per catalogue were evaluated by comparison to high-resolution spectroscopy. Our sample includes 1113 open clusters. A typical precision of 0.05dex is achieved for a subsample of nearly 600 clusters when only their bright red giants are considered. Metal-rich and metal-poor clusters never studied before are presented, as well as remnants of dissolving clusters. Galactic maps show a smooth decrease of metallicity from inside to outside the disc. We measured the radial and vertical gradients, their evolution with time and the age-metallicity relation in bins of Galactocentric distance.

Keywords
  1. milky-way-galaxy
  2. open-star-clusters
  3. metallicity
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2025A&A...699A.246H
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History

2025-07-17T09:14:52Z
Resource record created
2025-07-17T08:15:19Z
Updated
2025-07-17T09:14:52Z
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