OB associations from Hipparcos Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. De Zeeuw P.T.
  2. Hoogerwerf R.
  3. De Bruijne J.H.J.
  4. Brown A.G.A.
  5. Blaauw A.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

A comprehensive census of the stellar content of the OB associations within 1 kpc from the Sun is presented, based on Hipparcos positions, proper motions, and parallaxes. It is a key part of a long-term project to study the formation, structure, and evolution of nearby young stellar groups and related star-forming regions. OB associations are unbound "moving groups", which can be detected kinematically because of their small internal velocity dispersion. The nearby associations have a large extent on the sky, which traditionally has limited astrometric membership determination to bright stars (V~<6mag), with spectral types earlier than ~B5. The Hipparcos measurements allow a major improvement in this situation. Moving groups are identified in the Hipparcos Catalog by combining de Bruijne's (1999MNRAS.306..394H) refurbished convergent point method with the "Spaghetti method" of Hoogerwerf & Aguilar (1999, MNRAS, in press). Astrometric members are listed for 12 young stellar groups, out to a distance of ~650pc. These are the three subgroups Upper Scorpius, Upper Centaurus Lupus, and Lower Centaurus Crux of Sco OB2, as well as Vel OB2, Tr 10, Col 121, Per OB2, {alpha} Persei (Per OB3), Cas-Tau, Lac OB1, Cep OB2, and a new group in Cepheus, designated as Cep OB6.

Keywords
  1. stellar-associations
  2. ob-stars
Bibliographic source Bibcode
1999AJ....117..354D
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IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/117/354
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.51170354

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History

2007-12-31T22:51:46Z
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2007-12-31T22:51:46Z
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2023-04-06T16:50:33Z
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