New Galactic open clusters Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Ferreira F.A.
  2. Corradi W.J.B.
  3. Maia F.F.S.
  4. Angelo M.S.
  5. Santos J.F.C.Jr.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

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.

Keywords
  1. Milky Way Galaxy
  2. Open star clusters
  3. Optical astronomy
  4. Trigonometric parallax
  5. Proper motions
  6. Galaxy classification systems
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2020MNRAS.496.2021F
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/496/2021
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/496/2021
Document Object Identifer DOI

Access

Web browser access HTML
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/496/2021
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/496/2021
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/496/2021
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/MNRAS/496/2021/param?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/496/2021/param?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/496/2021/param?
IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/496/2021/members?
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/496/2021/members?
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/MNRAS/496/2021/members?

History

2020-07-03T15:53:51Z
Resource record created
2020-07-03T15:53:51Z
Created
2022-12-14T08:01:50Z
Updated

Contact

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