Diameters of Galactic open star clusters Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. van den Bergh S.
  2. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The present paper presents a tabulation of data on all 600 Galactic open clusters for which it is currently possible to calculate linear diameters. As expected, the youngest "clusters", with ages <15Myr, contain a significant (>=20%) admixture of associations. Among intermediate-age clusters, with ages in the range 15Myr to 1.5Gyr, the median cluster diameter is found to increase with age. Small, compact clusters are rare among objects with ages >1.5Gyr. Open clusters with ages >1Gyr appear to form what might be termed a "cluster thick disk", part of which consists of objects that were probably captured gravitationally by the main body of the Galaxy.

Keywords
  1. Open star clusters
  2. Galaxy classification systems
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2006AJ....131.1559V
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/AJ/131/1559
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/131/1559
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.51311559

Access

Web browser access HTML
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/131/1559
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/131/1559
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/AJ/131/1559
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://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).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/131/1559/table1?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/131/1559/table1?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/AJ/131/1559/table1?

History

2007-08-03T15:43:23Z
Resource record created
2007-08-03T15:43:23Z
Created
2017-12-06T07:39:00Z
Updated

Contact

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